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• If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

  Richard Gere

  Being Yourself, Communication, Levels

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• The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

  Edward Teller

  Freedom, Democracy, Weapons

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  The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Swings, Doors

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• I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Creativity, Responsibility

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• The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.

  Zicheng Hong

  Feet, Taoism, Mind

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• Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Innovation, Novelty, Dangerous

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• 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

  Effort, Brain, Attention

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

  Glenn Close

  People, Society, Actresses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.

  Myrlie Evers-Williams

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

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

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Innovation, Religion, Novelty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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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 perfect egg sheltering it. We must risk being raw and fresh and awkward. For without such openness, life will not penetrate us anew. Unless we are open, we will not be filled.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Baby, Eggs, Perfect

  Patricia Monaghan (1999). “The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit”, p.109, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• 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

  Thinking, Japan, Style

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• Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

  Frantz Fanon

  Faith, Atheist, Strong

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• Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, Perfect, Sincerity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

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• Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Flower, Flora And Fauna

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.

  Haruki Murakami

  Matter, Honestly, Stills

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• 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, Jazz

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• If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Simplicity, Innocence

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• There is nothing more important to our survival, nothing more dignified than learning how to take care of others, how to serve and teach people with kindness and openness. Mothers are experts in these fields. I hope people can learn to listen to them, learn to be like them and acknowledge the wisdom there before it is too late. I hope people can learn how to serve others.

  Samantha Hunt

  Mother, Kindness, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Karyn Kusama

  Fire, Creative, Curiosity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Men, Listening

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• Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

  Stephen Covey

  Adventure, Effectiveness, People

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Honesty, President, Instinct

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

  Nancy Reagan

  Inspirational, Life, God

  "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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• The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.

  Morris Berman

  Spiritual, Real, Work

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