Quotes about Openness

If you're in the habit of listening only to the facts and not the person who expresses them, change your focus - and really listen.

If you are your only source of information and ideas, you're in trouble.

Teachability is an attitude of wanting to learn from every experience and every person.

When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

The mark of someone with potential to grow is openness to the process. When you look at people who are eager to learn more, you can bet they are on the right track. And when you talk to people who just don't want any more instruction, then they have pretty much hit the wall. They are done.

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

In life, and in basketball, if you lay the truth out there, people don't have to guess.

I don't have any problem with drag being more mainstream... I enjoy the fact that we're moving toward a place where people are a lot more open.

I am willing to sound dumb. I am willing to be wrong. I am willing to be passionate about something that isn't perceived as cool. I am willing to express a theory. I am willing to admit I'm afraid. I'm willing to contradict something I've said before. I'm willing to have a knee-jerk reaction, even a wrong one. I'm willing to apologize. I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.