Quotes About Transparency

At the core of every successful conversation lies the free flow of relevant information.

When people purposefully withhold meaning from one another, individually smart people can do collectively stupid things.

When it comes to risky, controversial, and emotional conversations, skilled people find a way to get all relevant information (from themselves and others) out into the open.

They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you understood that the very thing that was supposed to protect them was the thing that made them vulnerable, and you knew you couldn't help them, so you decided to love them instead.

In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we need to think carefully about the information we're volunteering to the world. Sometimes the world is listening.

Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. Unwavering honesty will help seal in trust.

Greater personalization requires greater transparency. Absolute personalization (vanity) requires absolute transparency (no privacy). If I prefer to remain private and opaque to potential friends and institutions, then I must accept I will be treated generically, without regard to my specific particulars. I'll be an average number.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

As human beings we govern our actions with our deepest fears. But if you name that shit, you claim that shit: let enough people into your closet and you'll find there's no more room for skeletons. Leave yourself nowhere to hide and you can live your life unguarded.

I wonder whether you can truly love, or be loved back, by someone who hides who they are.

Always play your decoy hand so people won't get the chance to see you fail at that which is closest to your heart.

There are so many times when many of us have found ourselves living a tremendous lie when we could be living a tremendous life.

I don't want to tell you a lie, and I don't know the truth.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

I held the mescal up to the light and watched the worm slide across the bottom of the bottle.

Instinctively she knew that talking, talking, talking kept people from probing, probing, probing. The more she seemed to reveal about herself, the more she could hide, and still appear to be open and forthcoming.

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.

Corruption should be regarded a disorder just like any other addictions

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing

Remember Hattie, tell the good and the bad.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

In my relationships with persons I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to act as though I were something that I am not.

It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.