Quotes about Openness

It is important that you're out, and it is important that you're visible.

If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are.

The best ideas are common property.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

We must return to the teachable nature of our first love.

We want Jesus to come to our house, but we're going to question Him when He gets there.

No matter how much I know (or think I know), I can learn from this situation.

Learn to be flexible. Thomas Jefferson once said, "In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.

William A. Hewitt, Chairman of Deere and Company, says, "To be a leader you must preserve all through your life the attitude of being receptive to new ideas. The quality of leadership you will give will depend upon your ability to evaluate new ideas, to separate change for the sake of change from change for the sake of me.

Remain Approachable As a Leader, Role Model, and Coach:

you must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Adapt to them—don't expect them to adapt to you.