Quotes About Honesty

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

Transparency increases credibility and accountability.

Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

Transparency concentrates minds.

I believe in transparency.

Transparency is so important in business.

Transparency is more sexy than a full, pancake finish.

Transparency builds trust and it's critical in a crisis.

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

I believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption.

If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

Transparency is one of our core principles, We treat the food with integrity. We don't commodify it beyond recognition.

In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

We live in a culture of destructive transparency.

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.

I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency.

For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.