Quotes About Transparency

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

Ask for what you want. Say what's on your mind. Be honest with me, and I'll always be honest with you.

I'm a simple man, Janet. I say what I mean and have no talent for games. I want to show you how I feel about you so there's no chance for misunderstanding. If you think I'm trying to romance you, you're right. I am." "Oh, Jack." She smiled, raised her glass. "It's working. Cheers.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Secrets are corrosive. Secrets destroy anything you try to layer over them. It's like using concealer to cover a black eye. You can hide it, but that's not the same as healing.

We can put the chairs in a circle, but as long as they are occupied by people who have an inner hierarchy, the circle itself will have a divided life, one more form of "living within the lie": a false community.

Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.

If a person does not trust another, they will not be vulnerable and transparent and the possibility of misunderstanding and misinterpretation increases. Low trust situations weaken the connection between what we feel and what we say. Other team members pick up on this lack of trust on their intuitive radar screens, raise their defensive shields, and respond in kind. Trust and communication spiral down together.

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

Then we'd be living a lie," Padmé told him gently. "And one we couldn't keep

I wish we could persuade either Thomas or James to be more forthcoming!

NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE

Truth doesn't stay hidden. Neither do secrets. One day, to a praying heart, they disclose themselves.

Be brave. Write plainly.

Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

there is no such thing as too much communication.

The enemy of accountability is ambiguity

This planet is information' the Mayor says. 'All the time, never-ceasing. Information it wants to give you, information it wants to take from you to share with everyone else. And I think you can respond to that in two ways. You can control how much you give it, like you an I have done [...]' 'Or you can open yourself to it completely,; I say.

Roche hadn't just blithely assumed that the powerful drugs it was about to introduce to the public would be safe: the company had deliberately obfuscated evidence to the contrary. In