Openness Quotes
307 quotes by 251 authors
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It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the…
— Patricia Monaghan
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Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is…
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process,…
— Joko Beck
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We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them.…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings…
— Paul Monette
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Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from…
— Yvon Chouinard
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The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the…
— Marta Andreasen
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The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which…
— Medard Boss
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In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of…
— Jane Yolen
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Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called…
— Jan Morris
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Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
— Polly Toynbee
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You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still,…
— John Welwood
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The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.
— Myles Munroe
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The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship;…
— Myles Munroe
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Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.
— Julius Genachowski
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The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will…
— David Deida
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More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Who Wrote These Openness Quotes
251 authors contributed a total of 307 Openness Quotes, led by these top contributors: