Top 90 Openness Quotes

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you’re free to create NewCo.
Michael Gerber
Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.
Alain Dehaze
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
Sam Harris
My career is based on openness and honesty.
Kim Kardashian
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
Wole Soyinka
Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who’s going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.
Douglas Feith
Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.
Alison Gopnik
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
Herbie Hancock
I think young people respond much better to openness and frankness and practical stuff than speeches.
Karren Brady
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The brain’s calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
Marilyn Ferguson
Looking back on the Tiananmen movement, it is striking how modest the protesters’ demands were: an end to press censorship and restrictions on demonstrations; openness about the income of state leaders; increased funding for education.
Tom Malinowski
The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth’s plant and animal population. I hadn’t anticipated it would be so loud.
Bill Buford
I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.
Brian Tyree Henry
As both Republican Study Committee Chairman and Majority Whip, I’ve made it a top priority to bring openness and inclusiveness into the legislative process so we can bring our dynamic conference together as we advance our agenda.
Steve Scalise
My mother’s openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I’m open to everything. And I don’t have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences – and as my context changes, so does what I believe.
Amy Tan
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn’t live there.
James Polshek
The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed – but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to ‘jailbreak’ the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple’s desire to keep it closed.
Jonathan Zittrain
Modern girls are much more informed than we were. Modern girls seem to know more and there is openness.
Mary Nightingale
The thing that’s carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness.
Black Thought
It’s not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Herbie Hancock
I’m trying to tell you that there’s a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two-thirds of African countries have had multi-party democratic elections. Not all of them have been perfect, or will be, but the trend is very clear.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Openness, transparency – these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt… and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
Michael Moore
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer’s journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It’s not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.
Jerry Saltz
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.
Douglas Rushkoff
I love the American openness and use of language; I just don’t know how to be that way.
Yolanda Hadid
One of the things I’ve always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties.
Stacey D’Erasmo
There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of ‘openness’ in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.
Robin Chase
If the part isn’t always there on the page, I’ve had good relationships with writers where there’s an openness to bring more to the role.
Felicity Jones
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
Stephen Jay Gould
We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.
Karyn Kusama
Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.
Niko Kovac
I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few.
Shashi Tharoor
I believe being a true Global Citizen means you have the willingness and openness to step outside of your own boundaries, and I’m honored to represent that with TUMI.
Claudia Kim
Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology.
Edwin Catmull
Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.
Chris Raschka
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama’s early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.
Noah Feldman
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.
Gary Wolf