Openness Quotes

307 quotes by 249 authors

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. — Terry Pratchett
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to… — Jerry Saltz
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. — Ben Stein
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of… — John Steinbeck
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the… — Dan Stevens
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples'… — Linus Torvalds
Faith is a state of openness or trust. — Alan Watts
Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point… — Andrew Weil
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. — Elwyn Brooks White
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. — Howard Rheingold
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an… — Douglas Rushkoff
The main character of any living system is openness. — Ilya Prigogine
When someone is seeking,â€ said Siddartha, â€œIt happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to… — Hermann Hesse
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke
What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us… — Carl Sagan
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too… — Henri Matisse
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science… — Carl Sagan
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of… — Haruki Murakami
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter… — Michael Ondaatje

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