Quotes About Transparency

Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, "Take my life and let it be" when you haven't given Him one ounce?

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.

Students have the right to know our goals—all of them. Challenging students, who have experienced adults as unpredictably dangerous creatures roaming their landscapes, have earned the right to be suspicious of us. If these students are to try again, we have to be transparent in our efforts.

My experience has shown me that if you have to say what you are, you probably aren't. Think about that for a moment. "I'm honest," "I'm ethical," even "I'm the boss," or "I'm in charge," usually indicates just the opposite. Doesn't it?

Andon works only when you teach your employees the importance of bringing problems to the surface so they can be quickly solved.

Rather, companies improve their quality by defining what the idea means in terms of specific operational measures, then routinely and frequently assessing those aspects of performance, sharing the outcomes with everyone (often in graphical form), and holding people accountable for improving the measures that are under their control. When

Still, for someone who lied as much as Trump did, he was a remarkably transparent figure. He never really pretended to be anything other than what he was—a narcissistic scoundrel. Yet he survived.

Captions and hashtags didn't tell the whole story. They didn't even tell the real story a lot of the time.

The best I offer the world is the truth—my highest gift. What the world does with it is not up to me. I am not in charge of outcomes, opinions, assessments. I am not in the business of damage control. When I present a fabricated version of myself—the self who knows all, is ever certain, always steps strong—we all lose, because I cannot keep up with that lie and neither can you.

When we operate from the central concern of being seen a certain way, we can't develop healthy relationships in the messy soil of reality-- the only place they'll grow. Presenting a perfect, fake life to others generates fear in our own hearts and intimidation in everyone else's, and creates nice, fake relationships-- with our friends, with our family members, even with our own children.

Trust me, no one wants a perfect friend who can't offer a minute of transparency. We can get that on Pinterest. Our souls ache for real people in real homes with real kids and real lives. We may carefully curate online identities with well-chosen pictures and selective information, but doing so leaves us starving for something true. I seek only friends who bleed and sweat and laugh and cry. Don't fear your humanity; it is your best offering.

But God will span the universe to meet the believer who is real. He'd take an honest mess over a pretty lie any day.

that. What do you think of __________? I hadn't thought of it in that way. Thank you for that angle. Let me think about that a bit before I respond. Thanks for your transparency.

occurs, it means we can see through your pants. It's too

The only relief is being genuine at all times with all people, and if you think that is also hard, you are correct, ma'am. But at least it is honest. At least it is whole and true. At least you don't have to adjust the station according to the passengers.

It's not how good we are that counts, but how truthful we are about how good we're not.

Information trumps fear, right?

The truth can be a hard thing, Jo. It's often best left hidden.

Show Belle who you are, master. Who you really are. Show her your heart.

Never part with a fact unless you've no choice.

I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in the way. Language is a window, and if the window is clean, you shouldn't be aware you're looking through glass.