Openness Quotes

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. (Frank Ocean)
I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through. View quote
Kirsten Gillibrand
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. View quote
Gerald Ford
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. View quote
Herbie Hancock
Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives. View quote
James Heckman
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. View quote
Matthew Sweet
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust. View quote
Paulo Freire
The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. (Stephen Jay Gould)
Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem. View quote
Carl Rogers
There are two ways of confronting the country's problems. One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism. View quote
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. View quote
Christopher Nolan
Eutrapelia. "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians... lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward. View quote
Dave Eggers
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. View quote
Barack Obama
Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that. View quote
Eric Schmidt
Love flowers best in openness and freedom. View quote
Edward Abbey
Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. (Andrew Weil)
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project. View quote
Herbie Hancock
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 essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome. View quote
Kristin Armstrong
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 to operate. View quote
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair