Openness Quotes - page 5

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. (Marilyn Ferguson)
John Tate and I were asked by Nature magazine to write an obituary for Alexander Grothendieck. Now he is a hero of mine, the person that I met most deserving of the adjective "genius". I got to know him when he visited Harvard and John, Shurik (as he was known) and I ran a seminar on "s". His devotion to math, his disdain for formality and convention, his openness and what John and others call his naiveté struck a chord with me. View quote
David Mumford
Openness to the new is the virtue that describes the moral consequence of the doctrine of the relation of spirit to structure. The religion of the future inherits this doctrine from the struggle with the world, and radicalizes it. This virtue acts out the human truth of our relation to the settled contexts of our life and thought. That they are ephemeral and defective, that they cannot accommodate all the experience and insight we have reason to value, that there is always more in us, individually as well as collectively, than is, or ever can be, in them are facts giving us persistent reason to rebel against such structures. View quote
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered. View quote
Martha C. Nussbaum
America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength. View quote
Alex Tabarrok
When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them. View quote
Bobbi Brown
One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people. View quote
Cesar Pelli
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values, our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space. View quote
David Blunkett
Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security. View quote
Douglas J. Feith
The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services. View quote
Edward Felten
Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. (Francis Arinze)
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. View quote
Howard Rheingold
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created. View quote
Joan Halifax
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power. View quote
John Podhoretz
We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants. View quote
Jose Serrano
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 government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected. View quote
Julius Genachowski
We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire. View quote
Karyn Kusama
Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development. View quote
Li Keqiang
There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling. View quote
Kimiko Glenn
Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.' View quote
Lia Ices
The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves. (Niklas Zennstrom)
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it. View quote
Robert Dallek
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. View quote
Tim Crouch
Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie. View quote
J. C. Ryle
What is frequently appreciated in many so-called symbols is exactly their vagueness, their openness, their fruitful ineffectiveness to express a 'final' meaning, so that with symbols and by symbols one indicates what is always beyond one's reach. View quote
Umberto Eco