Opening Up Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.

  Eric Fischl

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

  Arnaud Desjardins

  Keys, Doors, Saying Yes

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• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location-should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Mean, Editors, Choices

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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• . . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Morning, Flower, Men

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• The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Essence, Possibility, Opening

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• Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive privileges of caste, by opening up to discussion the inestimable treasures which were hidden away in the hands of a very few who have even lost the use of them. Half has been stolen and lost; and the other half which remains is in the hands of men who, like dogs in the manger, do not eat themselves and will not allow others to do so.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Men, Doors

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• What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?

  Debbie Ford

  Lying, Heart, Keys

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• When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

  Nancy Lublin

  Dream, Bad Day, Australia

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• It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

  Nikola Tesla

  Intellectual, Ignorant, Enlightenment

  Nikola Tesla, Neil Thomas (2017). “Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

  Muriel Barbery

  Soul, Life Is, Entrusting

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2008.

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• For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.

  Michio Kaku

  Beautiful, Science, Bystanders

  Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.5, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Powerful, Creativity, Hands

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• What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

  Susan Sontag

  Healthy, Ordinary, Doe

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• In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

  Hu Jintao

  Past, Years, Political

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• The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of various authors, but in opening up their understanding to the outer world, so that a living stream may flow from their own minds, just as leaves, flowers, and fruit spring from the bud on a tree.

  John Amos Comenius

  Spring, Flower, Ideas

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• The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

  James Taylor

  Heart, Love Is, Secret

  Song: Secret O' Life, Album: JT, 1977

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• A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice [is]: that government employees or people who draw the bulk of their income from government by other means should be deprived of the vote . . . It is another example of the opening up of alternatives for investigation and the presentation of new conceivable policy options characteristic of public choice, rather than a policy that all its students favor.

  Gordon Tullock

  Mean, Government, People

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• It is my belief that exciting things happen when a variety of overlapping activities designed for all people-the old and the young, the blue and white collar, the local inhabitant and the visitor, different activities for different occasions-meet in a flexible environment, opening up the possibility of interaction outside the confines of institutional limits. When this takes place, deprived areas welcome dynamic places for those who live, work and visit; places where all can participate, rather than less or more beautiful ghettos.

  Richard Rogers

  Beautiful, Ghetto, Blue

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• The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

  John Fahey

  Opening, Unconscious, Composition

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• The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting.

  Robert Altman

  Voice, Molecules, Body

  "Still up to mischief" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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• When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is a fearless place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place ... To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation; it's lightening up and opening up space and time for something new and wonderful to happen.

  Vicki Robin

  Letting Go, Self, Space

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• We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

  John Lehman

  Ocean, Eras, Enormous

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• ...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.

  Clive Ponting

  Benches, Body, Conservative

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• I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

  Andrea Arnold

  Flower, Knowing, Film

  Interview with Jonathan Crocker, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.

  Hillary Clinton

  Eye, Thinking, Finding Yourself

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