Top 100 Be Open To Quotes
#1. Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.
Stephen Richards
#2. There's a difference between fear and paralysis. And I've learned that I don't have to "grow up" to be open to opportunity, to be willing to step through doors without being pushed. I just have to be brave. I just have to be slightly braver than I am scared.
Victoria Schwab
#3. I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
Ralph Abernathy
#4. We need to be open to ways in which we are being spoken to and in which we are receiving some form of communication. Some people call them signs. Open your heart and allow yourself to be touched by them. They are often stunning expressions of your place in the universe.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#5. If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
Benjamin Carson
#6. Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.
Roopleen
#7. Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet.
Carl Sagan
#8. Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
Ellen DeGeneres
#9. Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
Rachel Joyce
#10. Wisdom comes from experience, either the experience of others or of oneself. And to let experience do its work, a person has to be open to receiving the lessons that it has to teach.
Henry Cloud
#11. The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.
Hassanal Bolkiah
#12. Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
Elizabeth Moon
#13. Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.
James Fenton
#14. May I not sit in judgment. May I be open to hearing and accepting the truth of what I am told. May my decisions be for the good of all concerned. May my work bring peace . . . Charlotte
Jacqueline Winspear
#15. Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.
Ajahn Brahm
#16. Dear God, I surrender this situation to you. May it be used for your purposes. I ask only that my heart be open to give love and to receive love. May all the results unfold according to your will. Amen. Whatever you do, do it for God.
Marianne Williamson
#17. As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler
#18. I would be open to a proposal that would have some minimum tax level for everyone.
Tim Kaine
#19. Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.
Benny Hinn
#20. At the worst it can only be death, and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same
Bram Stoker
#21. Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.
Debra Messing
#22. My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.
Paul Wardingham
#23. Every religion should be open to questions and change.
J.D. Robb
#24. I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference ... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.
John Thune
#25. I think the artist has an ability to draw pictures for people to where they can process these messages that otherwise they wouldn't be open to hearing.
LeCrae
#26. I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.
Becky G
#27. My involvement is an extension of who I am as a person. I have found a sense of renewal and peace when I allow myself to be open to create, give, and fully participate in things that call me to respond from my core.
Grace Gealey
#28. To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.
Bell Hooks
#29. If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.
Andy Stanley
#30. We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
Sebastian Thrun
#31. If Christianity is to be discounted as wishful thinking because it removes fear of meaninglessness and annihilation, then secularism should be open to the same charge, since it removes the hated ideas of an absolute superior and of real responsibility.
Richard L. Purtill
#32. Writers need to be open to trying new things. My first bestseller was a cookbook, and from that experience I learned things about marketing a book that benefitted me greatly.
Dan Alatorre
#33. Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves. The
Eva Hoffman
#34. I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
Fantasia Barrino
#35. Filmmaking is, a sort of uncontrolled process. I think it's very important to be open to the unexpected and at the same time, of course, maintain your vision, be open to the all the things you didn't think of yourself that can make the film better.
Dagur Kari
#36. each day be open to the world, be ready to think; each day be ready not to accept what is said just because it is said, be predisposed to reread what is read; each day investigate, question, and doubt.
Paulo Freire
#37. Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
David Soul
#38. I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.
Sherrie Eldridge
#39. I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.
Donald Trump
#40. Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way.
Cara Santa Maria
#41. Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation & reviling, while fine work housing emptiness is closed to all insults & is easily ivied over with paid praises
Richard Flanagan
#42. Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.
Barbara De Angelis
#43. I want to continue to stay plugged into New Orleans and help people who are still struggling with the recovery here, and then, if I can help around the country and around the world, absolutely, I'll be open to that.
Ray Nagin
#44. The pattern of our lives is essentially circular. We must be open to all points of the compass; husband, children, friends, home, community; stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider's web to each breeze that blows, to each call that comes.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#45. Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.
Michelle Trachtenberg
#46. Be open to suggestions, but don't let anyone dictate how you should tell your story. Who can possibly tell your story better than you?
Giuseppe Bianco
#48. The final word on the political non-implications of group differences must go to Gloria Steinem: There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all the other occupations should be open to everyone.
Steven Pinker
#49. In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
Rollo May
#50. If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it.
Steven Levitt
#51. What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.
Reggie Watts
#52. To succeed, you have to be open to problems. You have to be open to failure. And as you go up the ladder, you gain the right to get more problems.
John C. Maxwell
#53. Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear.
Solange Nicole
#54. I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.
Guy Pearce
#55. All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
John Amery
#56. We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.
Charlie Kaufman
#57. There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
Florynce Kennedy
#58. There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
Armando Iannucci
#59. In practice, a large market will either lack a good starting point or it will be open to competition,
Peter Thiel
#60. How to Find Your Joylah
1. Try new things
2. Be open to new friends
3. Visit new places
4. Listen to new ideas
5. Remember each day is a new day
6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while
Elizabeth Atkinson
#61. I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.
May Sarton
#62. We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.
Tsem Tulku
#63. It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.
Carl Sagan
#64. I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.
Freddie Gibbs
#65. Don't hide from love Walker, be open to it and it will find you. -Sadie
T.A. Hardenbrook
#66. Bible tells us we have been forgiven much, so we must love much. Love means forgiveness, and forgiveness means you have to be open to letting God work in your heart and in your mind,
Michelle Lynn Brown
#67. You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
Peter Berg
#68. BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. "NEW" MAKES US GROW
Rossana Condoleo
#69. Don't diss being a wife and mother in favor of chasing after something that seems sexy and significant. Be open to what God has for you, and let him add the excitement.
Lisa Anderson
#70. Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart.
Sheri Fink
#71. Live with passion and compassion, proceed with optimism, value disciplined thinking, be open to intimacy and love the mystery.
Saint Peter
#72. Television has changed. There's obviously the generic shows, but on HBO and AMC, there are some really great series, so I'm not closed off to television. If there's an amazing role with amazing people and a great story, I'd definitely be open to it.
Amanda Crew
#73. To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand
#74. While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves.
Charlotte Kasl
#75. Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.
Amanda Harlech
#76. I can't remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It's like, I'll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.
Richard Gere
#77. But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.
Sarah Dessen
#78. Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.
Hayao Miyazaki
#79. Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.
Ram Dass
#80. Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.
Dana Reeve
#81. I have a saying: Receive everything - decide later, which reminds me to be open to possibilities instead of closing the doors too quickly before I've had the opportunity to sit with something new. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
#82. Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.
Marianne Williamson
#83. A man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me.
Bram Stoker
#84. There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.
Kathryn Budig
#85. When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like 'planned out'.
Hamid Drake
#86. As noble (and often ignoble) creatures of the universe, the people of the world must acknowledge the nakedness of long held beliefs and be open to constructive criticism. Even if the criticism comes from within or without the structures held sacrosanct.
Leviak B. Kelly
#87. You couldn't plan on when love would find you; you only had to be open to it.
Elena Aitken
#88. Don't go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to improve. And, the chances of reaching your goals will increase enormously.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#89. I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.
Omar Sy
#92. You need that marketing power. You need to go do the interviews. You need to put yourself out there and risk and be open to the fact that people are going to not like you, and they are just going to rip you apart, and whatever you say in an interview can get quoted out of context.
Sharlto Copley
#93. The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.
Pope Francis
#94. Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Denzel Washington
#95. Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another.
Sharon Salzberg
#96. If you want to go to places worth going, you have to be open to personal growth. No matter how much your job pays you, if it doesn't offer you the opportunity to grow, your efforts would only go to waste. There are really just some things that money can't buy. Never stop learning!
Kevin J. Donaldson
#97. I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.
Robert Casey
#98. True self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.
Carol S. Dweck
#99. I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.
Jessye Norman
#100. Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.
Jonah Hill
