logo

Quotes About Transparency

the only thing that really matters is this: are they holding back their opinions? Members of great teams do not.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Members of cohesive teams know one another's strengths and weaknesses and don't hesitate to point them out. They also know something about one another's backgrounds, which helps them to understand why members think and act the way they do.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.
~ Patrick White
you will have to leave behind your need to appear perfect, and instead be appropriately transparent with others.
~ Unknown
As long as it doesn't require special shoes, human sacrifice, or extra funding, you can do almost anything, as long as you let me know about it.
~ Paul Dini
Part of what software has to do is explain itself. So
~ Paul Graham
Nobody disappears completely anymore. The only thing that's disappeared is privacy, which is never coming back. And which is probably a good thing. Why should anything be private? No hiding, no guilt, no shame. Just a completely transparent world.
~ Unknown
Someone knows—someone in the government, or the army, or the police. This is a government of secrets. If there are secrets, there can be no justice.
~ Paul Theroux
I told him to tell the truth,' Mr. Fang said. 'It is important to know the truth about the Cultural Revolution. Foreigners must be told. We must face the facts. It was a disaster ...
~ Paul Theroux
You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.
~ Paulo Coelho
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
~ Paulo Coelho
Be transparent in your actions, and secret in your plans
~ Paulo Coelho
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.
~ Unknown
The art of life is to show your hand.
~ E. V. Lucas
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.
~ Theodor Adorno
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
~ Ben Okri
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
~ Edward Abbey
I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
~ Arne Glimcher
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
~ Moliere
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.
~ Susan Sontag
Our words reveal our heart, our actions reveal our soul.
~ Anthony D. Williams
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
~ Henry Cloud
But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know where the problems lay.
~ Danielle Ofri