Transparency Quotes - Page 3

• Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.

  Keith Rabois

  People, Goal

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

  Michelle Malkin

  Media, Land, White

  "Obama's Cloud-Based Transparency" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Different, Way, Produce

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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• But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

  Pierre Soulages

  Play, Painting

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• Transparency and detail are everything in science.

  Ben Goldacre

  Details

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• But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Liquid, Shapes

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

  John Thune

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thinking

  "Sen. John Thune on Legislation to Block Bailout of State Pension Plans". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2011.

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• The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragicallyHe has nothing to prove, since he has no appearances to keep up, and nothing to seek, since everything is before him. What is more simple than simplicity? What is lighter? It is the virtue of wise men and the wisdom of saints.

  Andre Comte-Sponville

  Wise, Simple, Men

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• I would like to see transparency become the default for the American government: Abolish the Freedom of Information Act so we don't have to ask government for information but government must ask to keep information from us. The more transparent government is, the more collaborative it can become. The more our officials learn to trust us - with information and a role in government - the more we can trust them.

  Jeff Jarvis

  American Government

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When I say I believe in radical truth and radical transparency, all I mean is we take things that ordinarily people would hide, and we put them on the table, particularly mistakes, problems, and weaknesses. We put those on the table, and we look at them together. We don't hide them.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Recovery, Accountability, Standards

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• Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

  Aruna Roy

  Taken, Action, Corruption

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• It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.

  Hillary Clinton

  Integrity, Men, Games

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.

  Ai Weiwei

  Independent, Army, Differences

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

  Brian Houston

  People, Goal, Leader

  Twitter post from Jun 09, 2015

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• I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.

  Anderson Cooper

  Knowledge, Thinking, People

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• I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Perspective, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Goal, Black, Important

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

  David Hockney

  Strong, Swimming, Men

  David Hockney (1978). “Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink”

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• Every effort is made to control information. Secrecy is just one of the toggles on their control board. The mindset is in place, and they've done a lot of hiring over eight years, not just political appointees. And they've done a lot of firing or driving people out who might have countermanded or resisted. So, institutionally, it's not going to be simply a matter of flipping the switch to undo it. You're going have to bring in people dedicated to transparency, and you have to demonstrate that there are rewards for candor.

  Ted Gup

  Eight, Years, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Life, Life Is, Written

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• Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.

  Peter Brook

  Glowing, Perfect, Simplicity

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• The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.

  Julian Assange

  Justice, Goal, Important

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• The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  Integrity, War, Government

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