quotes about Openness
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Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
-- Alan Watts -
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.
-- Daniele BolelliSource : Daniele Bolelli (2013). “Create Your Own Religion: A How-To Book without Instructions”, p.108, Red Wheel Weiser
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Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
-- David Cameron -
The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.
-- Edward Felten -
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There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
-- Frank OceanSource : "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
-- Howard Rheingold -
The main character of any living system is openness.
-- Ilya Prigogine -
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
-- Jared Diamond -
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Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
-- Joan Halifax -
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
-- Joseph Nye -
Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.
-- Lili Taylor -
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
-- Marcel Proust -
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Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.
-- Margaret Heffernan -
Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.
-- Michelle Cruz -
Shift often from openness to closure.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
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Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
-- Robert C. SolomonSource : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.50, Oxford University Press
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I want to expand the question of when something is done. I want to vex the ending. I want to mess around with that. I like the idea that if you make a work that has no clear ending, then you must play with the ending. Because if you don't, you're not highlighting the weird, lovely openness of abstraction.
-- Amy Sillman