Quotes about Openness
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
— Charles Dickens
The plain rule is, to do nothing in the dark, to be party to nothing under-handed or mysterious, and never to put his foot down where he cannot see ground.
— Charles Dickens
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out-- when, in fact, no one has an outcome to be imposed on the relationship, apart from the decision to continue it.
— James Carse
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Books, for me, used to be a way to escape. I now consider reading a good book a sacred indulgence, a chance to be any place I choose. It is my absolute favorite way to spend time. What I know for sure is that reading opens you up.
— Oprah Winfrey
Everything that happened to you can be used to strengthen you, if you allow it, if you're open to it.
— Oprah Winfrey
If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.
— Cormac McCarthy
People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.
— Cormac McCarthy
Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.
— Dale Carnegie