Openness Quotes - Page 12

• There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Careers, Curiosity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is a fearful environment where no one can trust to pick up a stranger, or a stranger cannot trust to get in a car. That search I find lacking. That openness. Right now, we have got ourselves stuck in one thing, which is make money as fast as we can, because it is hard to live in this world without it. Let us face it.

  Chris Noth

  Car, World, Making Money

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To get out of desperate situation can only be done by education and by openness for Indonesians. Everybody who can, should be participating in this 'project'. Not only professional educators and teachers , but especially artists, creative people, thinkers. There should be many more initiatives, particularly more from the independent press! What happened to progressive independent publications in Indonesia? Nothing - they never took off! It is a shame.

  Andre Vltchek

  Teacher, Independent, Artist

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

  Bell Hooks

  Honesty, Heart, Commitment

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• The clashes of people and the clashes of cultures have assisted me in learning the openness you have to be a part of in New York. You're always meeting people who are different than you. You always have to find a way to exist in it and also find a way to be yourself. In Stockholm, I thought I was artsy, then I came to New York and was like, "there's a bunch of artsy people everywhere!" It really forced me to start looking myself and ask. "what does it mean to be me?"

  Kissey

  Being Yourself, Mean, People

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Integrity, Character

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

  Thomas Cochrane

  Respect, Order, Tolerance

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• One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

  Herbie Hancock

  Mean, People, African American

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• I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

  George Hickenlooper

  Humble, Humility, Keys

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

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• Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

  Haruki Murakami

  Children, Smart, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 10, 2014

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• When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

  Bobbi Brown

  Honesty, Integrity, Two

  "High Heels? They Just Don’t Fit". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2010.

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• Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

  Julius Genachowski

  Government, Essentials, Roles

  "Julius Genachowski: The Exit Interview". Interview with Jeffrey Rosen, newrepublic.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Faith, Letting Go, Attitude

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• We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Community, Guidance, Communion

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

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• The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dust, Kind, Bigs

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• He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Truth Is

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

  Dogen

  Blossoming, Emptiness, Grass

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• Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Wind, Flying, Feelings

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• To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, It is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth.

  Martin Seligman

  Running, Drama, Mean

  "Learned Optimism". Book by Martin Seligman, 1991.

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• Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

  Paul Krassner

  Racism, Isms, Sexism

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Dumb, Wish, Different

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2190, Library of Alexandria

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• Shade and light are different in every valley.

  Li Bai

  Light, Different, Valleys

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• In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness.

  Tara Brach

  Home, And Love, Needs

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• A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor—these are all things that make a woman attractive. We’ve all experienced the presence of someone who walks in and lights up a room. It’s never about their looks but about their energy. Allow yourself to light up the room by being your beautiful self.

  Jessica Ortner

  Beautiful, Light, Self

  FaceBook post by Jessica Ortner from May 08, 2014

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• Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to have a more flexible identity because we learn to accept ourselves and all of our human experience with more tenderness and openness. We learn to accept the present moment with an open heart. Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.

  Pema Chodron

  Commitment, Heart, Unique

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