Quotes about Openness

How each of us comes for our own reasons." "Comes where?" "To be with them and listen to their message. What Stephen meant was that our motives are wrong. Our thinking is wrong. But if we come... with an open heart and mind, we will see the rightness of their declarations.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

I think there's strength in being honest and open about yourself and your struggles. But it can also be a challenge. This is my life, I live with my own mental health, and that is happening to me every day. I can talk about it from a position of 'Oh, I've done this' but I'm still living that existence.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist.

We must act in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.

Let the characters into your mind and heart; suspend your disbelief, if such it is, about the events. Do not disapprove of something a character does before you understand why he does it—if then. Try as hard as you can to live in his world, not in yours; there, the things he does may be quite understandable. And do not judge the world as a whole until you are sure that you have "lived" in it to the extent of your ability.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.