Openness Quotes - Page 19

• The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

  John Cleese

  Essence, Play, Feelings

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• I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Doors, People, Transparency

  "Reforming the Way Washington Works". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• It's possible to transform the violent energy of our time into a culture of kindness.
  All things are possible through the openness of our mind, the gentleness of our spirit, and the act of understanding and embracing.

  Lily Yeh

  Kindness, Understanding, Mind

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• Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

  Douglas V. Steere

  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

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• People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

  James Gosling

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• IBM has had a long partnership with Siebel, JD Edwards and Peoplesoft, so from a partner perspective, this is a good move by both sides. This agreement reflects the reality of what customers expect for their investment, support and openness. Oracle really needed to do this for Websphere, but it opens up tremendous opportunities for both companies.

  Stephen Graham

  Moving, Opportunity, Reality

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• It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.

  Stephen Levine

  Healing, Compassion, Names

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2010). “Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening”, p.7, Anchor

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• To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Warrior, Needs

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• So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom, spontaneity and openness are emerging once again. It’s now recognized the future is open, not determined by the past. And this is true in many realms, the astronomical realm, the human realm, the meteorological realm in many ways.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Past, Way, Determined

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• The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Political, Democracy, Violence

  "Norway will not be intimidated by terror attacks, vows prime minister" by Helen Pidd and James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2011.

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• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. There's a strong tempation to close the platform, because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say 'That's really exciting.'

  Gabe Newell

  Strong, Epic, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity... Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,... a conversation with God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Thinking, Differences

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• In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

  Ludovico Einaudi

  Mean, Definitions, Elegance

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• What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.

  Joko Beck

  Life, Beautiful, Couple

  "Nothing Special". Book by Charlotte J. Beck, ‎Steven A. Smith, 2009.

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• Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from business schools who have been taught a codified way of doing business.

  Yvon Chouinard

  School, People, Way

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.199, Penguin

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• The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Self, Space, Despair

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.22, Granta Books

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• Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.

  Marta Andreasen

  Taken, Opportunity, People

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• In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.

  Jane Yolen

  Compassion, New Experiences, Differences

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• Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Self, Competition, Hierarchy

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• Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

  Polly Toynbee

  Dying, Care, Aspect

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Honesty

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• Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.

  Julius Genachowski

  Entrepreneur, Outcomes, Internet

  "Net Neutrality Brawl: FCC Is Not Happy with Google and Verizon" by Ben Parr, abcnews.go.com. August 6, 2010.

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• The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

  David Deida

  Letting Go, Sex, Giving Up

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• I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

  Clea DuVall

  Tired, Tolerance, Mind

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• If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Love, Risk, Tolls

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