Transparency Quotes - Page 5

• Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, News, Demand

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

  John Polkinghorne

  Happy Accidents, Remarkable, Rational

  John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale (2009). “Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

  Brian Boyd

  Honesty, Integrity, Opportunity

  Brian Boyd (2013). “Social Media for the Executive”, p.16, One Seed Press

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• works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Wall, Doors

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• God is not about using the mighty but the willing. He is not into using amazing people, just ones who prepared to lay their lives down to him. God is not looking for extraordinary, exceptionally gifted people, just laid down lovers of Jesus who will carry his glory with transparency and not take it for themselves

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, People, Lovers

  Heidi Baker, Rolland Baker (2014). “Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love”, p.62, Chosen Books

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• With the media, we don't know what's true, and we don't have radical transparency because we're seeing everything through somebody else's eyes. There's no other industry that has as much power and as much freedom and as little quality control. I can't imagine how anyone could not think that's a problem.

  Ray Dalio

  Eye, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Learning, Knowledge

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at self-consciousness in a much more careful and fine-grained manner, then we might also arrive at a new answer to your original question: What a "first-person perspective" really is.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Believe, Self, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DoD spends taxpayer dollars.

  Pete Hegseth

  America, Accountability, Dollars

  "Pentagon Waste Undermines Readiness, Proves Need for Audit" by Pete Hegseth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.

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• You have to set your own boundaries. We all do. You have to self-check. At the same time, the transparency is liberating. It is so much easier than screening every little thing you do and say. There's got to be some fluidity to self-expression without constantly editing things. The older I get, the more confident I feel in that. The filters are just flung away... lets face it, filters interrupt the flow of sincerity. If you're embarrassed about something you've done, then just say it.

  Shania Twain

  Done, Little Things, Sincerity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

  Chelsea Manning

  Believe, Law, Arbitrary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency.
  What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

  Edmond Jabes

  Dark, Forever, Sun

  Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.398, Wesleyan University Press

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• What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.

  Jodie Foster

  Morning, Talking, Ideas

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

  Graydon Carter

  Numbers, Issues, Hypocrisy

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• Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

  Richard Flanagan

  Art, Lying, Writing

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• Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

  Simon Mainwaring

  Jobs, Divorce, Media

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• The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Differences, Balance, Making A Difference

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light and transparency to what they're doing. And, one of the ways you do that is through journalism, and through guaranteeing a free press. That is its purpose, to provide a check on those who wield power.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Dark, Light, People

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• My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind...

  Tana French

  Wall, Memories, Color

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, January 30, 2007.

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• I am really passionate about transparency and trans rights issues, so I embrace these opportunities to speak. I try to stay in touch with those who are prominent in both the trans and transparency movements, but more often than not, I am speaking out on a particular issue on my own. I certainly hope that people listen to me and think about these issues. But regardless of whether I had a public venue to speak in, I would still be passionate about them.

  Chelsea Manning

  Opportunity, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Doubt, Special, Election

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• When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

  Merrill Markoe

  Self, Awareness, Self Awareness

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for "transparency." They want the Rule of Law - as long as they make the laws. They want transparency in order to standardise a situation, so that global capital can flow without any impediment.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, Order, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they demonstrated that there really is this government that just is the kind of permanent government that doesn’t get affected by election choices and that isn’t in any way accountable to any sort of democratic transparency and just creates its own world off on its own.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

  "Glenn Greenwald Slams 'F**king Hawk' Hillary Clinton as 'Banal, Corrupted'" by Randy Hall, www.newsbusters.org. May 12, 2014.

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• The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.

  John Ricard

  Country, Health Education, Poverty Reduction

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