Quotes about Openness

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.

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.