Quotes About Transparency

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

Sincerity becomes the honesty of people who cannot be honest with themselves.

She looked at him fondly. You won't never make much of a liar, she said. I can see right through you like lookin down into still water. I expect law and politics is goin to be out of your reach.

The future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did.

El ascensor que me esperaba para llevarme al Cielo podía ser la mejor toma de Hollywood de una caja para momias Bauhaus: un sarcófago angosto, vertical, con una tapa acrílica transparente

Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers.

Her head was perfectly still, eyes unblinking. He imagined her ego swimming up behind them, to peer at him suspiciously, something eel-like, larval, transparently boned. He had its full attention.

The beauty isn't in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.

Anxieties and controversies were now as clearly traceable through it as woodgrain through varnish.

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

Clarity dissolves resistance.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which offers a transparency into the hopes and desires of the person who made it. Bad art makes the viewer much more active. (Years later Chris would realise that her fondness for bad art is exactly like Jane Eyre's attraction to Rochester, a mean horse-faced junkie: bad characters invite invention.

As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which offers a transparency into the hopes and desires of the person who made it. Bad art makes the viewer much more active.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

the truth doesn't hide, but it sure as fuck ain't easy to find.

The trees were as bright as a shower of broken glass.

the law seeks, as it were, an end in symbolism, but does not offer any means of allowing citizens to address what was actually done to whom, by whom and why.

It's better to have no secrets. Lies are always harder to manage than the truth.

Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end.