Openness Quotes - Page 6

• My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.

  Susan Hill

  Heart, Race, Sky

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

  Narendra Modi

  Mean, Decision, India

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• When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.

  Mooji

  Real, Humility, Air

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• I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, don't want to understand, and sometimes we don't want to understand it.

  Anthony Head

  Believe, Thinking, Tolerance

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

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• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fall, Thinking, Tolerance

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Philosophy, Thinking, Medicine

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• Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Motherhood, Self

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.154, CUA Press

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• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  Indra Devi

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Simplicity, Serenity

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• The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Pain, Keys

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• IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness.

  Rupert Spira

  Honesty, Book, Recovery

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• You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

  Brandi Chastain

  Hard Work, Thinking, Practice

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• Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Political, Development, Economic

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• The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

  David Deida

  Men, World, Way

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

  Olympia Snowe

  Respect, Years, Issues

  "The Situation: Tuesday, August 16" by Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com.

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• We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

  Charles M. Vest

  Respect, Military, Long

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• 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.

  Matthew Sweet

  Growing Up, College, Imagination

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• Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  War, Government, Support

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• When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Vision, World, Way

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• Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when they act. The open future is intuitive; but can it be rigorously defended? God in an Open Universe shows that it can. Open theism has always been an attractive view of God; now it becomes a philosophically rigorous one as well.

  Philip Clayton

  Religious, Views, Assuming

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• Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Views

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2014

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• You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.

  John de Ruiter

  Able, Instant, Softness

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• Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honour!

  Pope Francis

  Honor, Titles, Serving Others

  Pope Francis' homily to the Holy Mass with the new Cardinals at Vatican Basilica, w2.vatican.va. February 15, 2015.

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• I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

  Amanda Palmer

  Teenager, Thinking, Rocks

  "Amanda Palmer: 'Thank God my best friend's a therapist'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

  Joseph Nye

  World, Debate, American Power

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