Openness Quotes

307 quotes by 249 authors

If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's… — Anthony Venn-Brown
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the… — Alan Watts
The Buddhaâ€™s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only… — Pema Chodron
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious… — Pema Chodron
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She… — Max Barry
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness. — Edward Teller
Love flowers best in openness and freedom. — Edward Abbey
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen. — Fleur Adcock
Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That… — Deepak Chopra
Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend… — David Spangler
One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness. — Miru Kim
Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults. — Alison Gopnik
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows. — Gary Wolf
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing… — Douglas Coupland
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take… — Wole Soyinka
If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness. — Sante D'Orazio
Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the… — Julius Genachowski
I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through. — Kirsten Gillibrand
As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room. — Tim Crouch

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