Openness Quotes

“No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.”

“When you open to the world, the world opens to you.”

“When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and freedom of thought and inquiry are the real sources of the West's economic strength, then the Arab-Muslim world would have to change. And the fundamentalists and extremists do not want to change.”

“Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart.”

“Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.”

“Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?”

“To learn new things one has to be open and vulnerable..”

“During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.”

“Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.”