Opening Up Quotes

• opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.

  Rob Bell

  Dream, Soul, Naked

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• I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up

  Shane Koyczan

  Art, Flower, Avalanches

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• When I've been open and accepting of where I am, things start opening up.

  Eva Mendes

  Accepting, Opening

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

  Joan Jett

  Fun, Believe, Struggle

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• If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Focus, Helping

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• Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

  Nora Roberts

  Loss, Giving, Different

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.1043, Penguin

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• China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Investing, China

  "The accidental hyperpower: an interview with Amy Chua". Interview with Fritz Lanham, www.chron.com. December 2, 2007.

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• People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

  Neil Sheehan

  Thinking, People, Diaries

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• The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Loss, Attachment

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• I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

  Kanye West

  Notebook, Giving, Loud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Pain, Heart

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.67, Discovery House

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• I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.

  Nikki Sixx

  Cds, Rocks, Firsts

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• There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.

  Condoleezza Rice

  World, Students, Brilliant

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.

  Joe Biden

  Fossils, Fundamentals, Fuel

  "Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2008.

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• I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

  Bill Richardson

  People, Bigs, Dialogue

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• If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from everywhere - from Quebec, Israel, Poland, and Belgium. It's not the usual French, German, etc. This category is opening up to socially engaged and political films. I think we're going to see a cross over to the main categories also. It's part of this global environment now and I'm grateful that the Academy is having this window on world cinema.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Grateful, Thinking, Israel

  Source: collider.com

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• The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Frontiers, Activity

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• There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being.

  Joko Beck

  Ends, Humans, Human Beings

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• Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you do all of those things, but it also shows the performers in a very raw state. They have to literally upset themselves to get to that position sometimes. You don't need a load of people judging you or not being interested in what you're doing or being an ass on set because it ruins it.

  Ben Wheatley

  People, Judging, Upset

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Recognize that both men and women might be more comfortable opening up to a woman than a man. Use that to your advantage.

  Ivy Meeropol

  Men, Use, Might

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

  Kenneth Frampton

  Block, Space, Law

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• Im coming out with a wine... Im actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. Im also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

  NeNe Leakes

  Wine, Airports, Coming Out

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• It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Past, Thinking, Law

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.278, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• For me, to represent people who represent the future of Canada and the great challenges we will face over the coming decades - this is where I wanted to start. I'm a teacher; I'm a convenor; I'm a gatherer; I'm someone who reaches out to people and is deeply interested in what they have to say. And people see that I'm not faking it. I'm actually genuinely committed to this dialogue that we're opening up, and this understanding that needs to happen in order to be an effective MP.

  Justin Trudeau

  Teacher, Order, Mps

  "Trudeau Wins Montreal Riding Nomination". www.cbc.ca. April 29, 2007.

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• The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.

  Martin Heidegger

  Believe, Home, Grace

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