Openness Quotes

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Max de Pree

Beautiful, May, Give

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 failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Love, Success, Men

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
Johnny Depp

Life, Time, Long

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr

Best, Democracy, Weapon

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love, Patience, Alone

Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan Watts

Faith, Trust, State

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 product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Rather, Alive

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
David Cameron

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
George Hickenlooper

Success, Humble, Humility

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
David Cameron

America, Between, Choice

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.
John Podhoretz

Power, Successful, Live

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
Michael Bloomberg

Life, Respect, May

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.
Gerald R. Ford

Best, End, Confidence

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.
Christian Bale

Movies, Help, Made

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
Haruki Murakami

Understand, Leave, Open

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Frank Ocean

Truth, Honesty, Magic

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.
Christopher Nolan

Good, Great, Bad

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

Mind, Remember, Point

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
Stephen Jay Gould

Nothing, Dangerous, Innovation

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 elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
Dan Stevens

Good, Happen, Farewell

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
Jared Diamond

Human, Innovation, Lots

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.
Paul Wolfowitz

Success, Political, Economic

The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.
Niklas Zennstrom

Themselves, Internet, Link

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
Polly Toynbee

Death, Care, Dying

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Herbie Hancock

Attitude, Style, Project

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
Herbie Hancock

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.
Jose Maria Aznar

Freedom, Political, Economic

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Find, America, Reason

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Life, Democracy, Means

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.
Anne Heche

Life, Person, Big

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