Openness Quotes

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world.

Eve Evangelista

When you open to the world, the world opens to you.

Djahariah Mitra

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open

Jay Woodman

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

Tommy Smothers

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

Thomas L. Friedman

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,

David Halberstam

In (hyper-loyal) cultures, loyalty is so highly prized that it covers a multitude of leadership sins. I’ve seen numerous bad leaders cover their ineptitude by stressing the importance of loyalty over competence. They teach that loyalty is more important than excellence and they use that idea to distract the team from their own inability to perform.

Phil Cooke

Travel was a species of warfare.

E.M. Forster

How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.

Alexander Shulgin

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

Aldous Huxley

•tJudge less–or at least later.•tGive new ideas and images a chance.•tUnderstand that everyone has his own truth or her own.•tRemember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.•tExpect to discover something delicious every day. (260)

Victoria Moran

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

Philip Zaleski

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

Torsten Wiesel

Children live life as a controlled experiment.

Jennifer Senior

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

Richard Brookhiser

The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

Paul C. Nagel

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Joseph Campbell

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Joseph Campbell

A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.

Thomas L. Friedman

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

David Brooks

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

Karl Barth

Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.

Sherry Turkle

As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.

Joe Cawley

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

Geraldine Brooks

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

Davis Miller

My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

A.J. Jacobs

A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?

Bryant McGill

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

Veronica Roth

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

Paul C. Nagel

See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that.

Debasish Mridha

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

Caitlin Keiper

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

Sherry Turkle

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

Philip Zaleski

Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.

Beth Moore

In Martin Luther's life and behavior is very courteous and friendly, and there is nothing of the stern stoic or grumpy fellow about him. He can adjust to all occasions. In social gathering he is gay, witty, ever full of joy, always has a bright and happy face, no matter how seriously his adversaries threatening him. One can see that God's strength is within him. – Petrus Mosellanus

Andrew Pettegree

Make us, Lord, in Chesterton's distinction, travelers instead of tourists. Where the tourist defines his day by the expectation of seeing certain things, give us the traveler's openness to seeing what You will reveal.

Brian Eshleman

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you’re in deep trouble.If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything new. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, maybe once in a hundred cases, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful as from the worthless ones.

Carl Sagan

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

Harold Bloom

I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of the Sahara Desert…one night, in a youth hostel that was more like a stable, I woke and walked out into a snowstorm. But it wasn’t the snow I was used to in Minnesota, or anywhere else I had been. Standing bare chest to cool night, wearing flip-flops and shorts, I let a storm of stars swirl around me. I remember no light pollution, heck, I remember no lights. But I remember the light around me-the sense of being lit by starlight- and that I could see the ground to which the stars seemed to be floating down. I saw the sky that night in three dimensions- the sky had depth, some stars seemingly close and some much farther away, the Milky Way so well defined it had what astronomers call “structure”, that sense of its twisting depths. I remember stars from one horizon to another, making a night sky so plush it still seems like a dream.It was a time in my life when I was every day experiencing something new. I felt open to everything, as though I was made of clay, and the world was imprinting on me its breathtaking beauty (and terrible reality.) Standing nearly naked under that Moroccan sky, skin against the air, the dark, the stars, the night pressed its impression, and my lifelong connection was sealed.

Paul Bogard

(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

Larry Eskridge

While we must not fall into the gnosticizing trap of seeing the world as only ideal, without any reference to the physical and tangible universe we inhabit, neither should we commit to crass literalism devoid of imagination and poetry.

RT Llizo

He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.

Sherry Turkle

Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

Matt Chandler

When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. "Mommy, God's really showing off today!

Beth Moore

Patience from a Buddhist perspective is not a "wait and see" attitude, but rather one of "just be there"... Patience can also be based on not expecting anything.Think of patience as an act of being open to whatever comes your way. When you begin to solidify expectations, you get frustrated because they are not met in the way you had hoped... With no set idea of how something is supposed to be, it is hard to get stuck on things not happening in the time frame you desired. Instead, you are just being there, open to the possibilities of your life.

Lodro Rinzler

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its pe

John F Kennedy

Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.

Bryant McGill

We always get help we ask for. "Knock and the door will open" Make sure it's the right door.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

The universe is full of doors.

Frank Herbert

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

Charles Dickens

To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.

Osho

When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

Paul C. Nagel

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