Top 90 Openness Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Openness Quotes from famous people such as Gordon Brown, Erykah Badu, Edward Felten, Naomie Harris, Olympia Snowe, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The way forward is for governments to consciously pursu

The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency – the new rules of the game.
Gordon Brown
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.
Erykah Badu
The secret of the Internet’s success has been its openness to new services.
Edward Felten
What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people’s homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
Naomie Harris
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
Olympia Snowe
‘Network neutrality’ is sometimes called ‘Internet freedom’ or ‘Internet openness’ and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others.
Marvin Ammori
The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.
Mary Lambert
I really like Los Angeles. I like the weather, the openness of it, the beach, the mountains, the desert. I find it inspiring. I get quite a lot of writing done out there.
David Thewlis
The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don’t break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we’ve fought so hard to create.
Jason Calacanis
Amsterdam is a breeding ground for new creative pursuits in many areas fueled by a tolerance and openness to ideas unlike any world city I’ve been to. There is something for everyone here, especially when you dare to go off the beaten path.
Marcel Wanders
Countries which favour openness and the mobility of skilled talent secure the development of more diverse and culturally rich work environments, a higher level of innovation, as well as entrepreneurship and wider international networks.
Alain Dehaze
Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It’s incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.
Bob Iger
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan Watts
I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men in alliance on questions of class should also be the expectation that women of colour can rely upon with our white feminist allies.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
America is a great nation, not just because of your power and your wealth, but because of your high ideals, openness, and generosity of spirit.
Lee Hsien Loong
We must honor our country’s tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.
Jose Serrano
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.
Douglas Coupland
What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.
Sarah Lacy
In 2008, Obama rode to victory in good part by wearing the openness face, casting the Bush administration as intrusive, secretive hawks who had little regard for individual privacy or civil liberties.
Neil Macdonald
Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country’s success and, quite honestly, to Uber’s.
Travis Kalanick
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
Barack Obama
I’m a very connected and passionate founder. And I do model transparency and openness and loyalty in my actions.
Julia Hartz
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn’t a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
Matthew Sweet
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
Howard Rheingold
Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn – and those are all good things.
Dick Van Dyke
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don’t fight war on our soil, we don’t have direct experience of it, so there’s an openness about the meanings we give to it.
Robert Dallek
It’s OK to stand back. But it’s also good to demonstrate that it’s fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, ‘This looks fun. I’d like to try this, too,’ your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.
Julia Cameron
My grandma, Nai Nai, has had the clothes she wants to be buried prepared since she was like 60. I guess there is an openness to discussing. It’s part of life. It’s part of the every day.
Lulu Wang
I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
George Hickenlooper
I’d like to be with a guy who’s in touch with his feminine side. He should be a lover of art, music and culture. A guy with a sense of humour, openness and emotional maturity is a big turn-on.
Lisa Haydon
There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Frank Ocean
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracio

In Hollywood there’s a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there’s a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you’re trying to break into the film industry, it’s definitely a bad thing.
Christopher Nolan
My hamstrings are permanently into a state of openness. I could probably fall out of bed into a split and not tear anything.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
Jared Diamond
Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
David Cameron
There’s no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
Peter Eisenman
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
John Podhoretz
It’s probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
James Wolfensohn
I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don’t want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.
John Baldacci
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren’t happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn’t exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn’t have existed without the openness of the platform.
Gabe Newell
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.
David Blunkett
For trade to grow, India must make a strategic decision that you want to encourage interdependence and more openness and more trade-based economy.
Lee Hsien Loong
Those fundamentally liberal values – openness, inclusion, internationalism – are what truly represent the best of Britain, and it’s those values that I’m determined to fight for as leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Jo Swinson
We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.
Dinesh Paliwal
Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it’s this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.
Amanda Gorman
Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.
Francis Arinze
When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it’s welcome.
Kristin Armstrong
Two things I’m trying to work on are openness and flexibility.
Lili Taylor
A high openness score means you’re open-minded – you see the world for what it is – whereas a low openness score means you’re incredibly closed-minded, and you see the world the way you want to see it, regardless of what is actually going on.
Adeo Ressi
Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.
Siri Hustvedt
As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.
Tim Crouch
I’m for Internet openness. We’re all for Internet openness. If you asked the American people, I think they support it. Internet companies, broadband companies are all in favor of it.
Michael O’Rielly
Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them.
Mat Kearney