Opens Up Quotes

#1. There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.

John Maus

#2. When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.

Luke Bryan

#3. The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

Ross Bleckner

#4. I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. ( ... ) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in which you are.

Slavoj Zizek

#5. Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty and this big empty hole opens up inside me, I just know there's never been a god that could fill it and there never will be.

Etgar Keret

#6. Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

Jim Goetz

#7. Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

Maria Montessori

#8. My sister's clear soft voice opens up the world to me. I lean in so hungry for it.

Jacqueline Woodson

#9. Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.

James Redfield

#10. I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.

Lionel Suggs

#12. Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

Sam Raimi

#13. It's amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I've finished three chapters rather than run a mile.

Dan Alatorre

#14. The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.

Richard Rohr

#15. Love doesn't mean shit in the real world. It opens you up inside, fucks your soul crazy hardcore, but outside, it's just a weakness to be exploited.

C.M. Stunich

#16. If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards

Fred Hoiberg

#17. Just so you know," I begin, "when they say 'Once upon a time' ... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Jodi Picoult

#18. The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.

Christian Slater

#19. Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Martin Scorsese

#20. When we dare to see things differently, life opens up to our eyes.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Barack Obama

#22. Something about lying on our backs staring up at the heavens ... opens the mind.

Dan Brown

#23. I have no reasons to be unhappy today. Normally, when I pick my mother up from the police station I go to the gym as soon as it opens and smash the bag for a while. This morning, however, I woke up to your pretty face and I remembered that you are my girlfriend.

Skyla Madi

#24. On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.

Marianne Williamson

#25. A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

Michael Behe

#26. High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

Michael Keaton

#27. Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.

Jane Roberts

#28. Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

Parker J. Palmer

#29. You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

Rico Love

#30. Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd
Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours
'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was not good
After sun-rising; far day sullies flowres.
Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sin glut,
And heaven's gate opens when the world's is shut.

Henry Vaughan

#31. Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work.

Barney Rosset

#32. When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.

Josh Pais

#33. Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up.

Danny Gregory

#34. I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

William P. Young

#35. Sebastian notices the girl too, so he opens up his binder to a fresh sheet of paper, then takes out a pen and writes, I still really miss you.

Lauren Barnholdt

#36. I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

Francois Gautier

#37. The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.

Melissa Rivers

#38. The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.

Richard Carmona

#39. Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

Wayne Gretzky

#40. It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.

RuPaul

#41. I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

Mark Helprin

#42. I believe love opens people up.

David Hare

#43. The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.

Henry Miller

#44. Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived of a fuller, richer life partly because of lack of the tithing experience and expression in life.

Mark Victor Hansen

#45. John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.

Patti LuPone

#46. The gate, probably built to accommodate an elephant procession, opens slowly and reveals an abandoned city dreamed up by a doomed king.

Mohammed Hanif

#47. I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They'll say, 'He did it well.' I like being funny; it opens people up.

Robert Klein

#48. Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an honor and a gift. It opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.

Janelle Monae

#49. Letting someone get that close to you only opens you up to more pain when they are gone.

Karen Lynch

#50. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Jim Carrey

#51. When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain.

Alexander Chee

#52. When you say no to the wrong people, it opens up the space for the right people to come in.

Joe Calloway

#53. Asking questions opens up new doors, new opportunities, and new ideas. It helps you think, create, and discover.

Farshad Asl

#54. Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#55. Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.

Fred Alan Wolf

#56. God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

Paul Crouch

#57. The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.

Dave Smalley

#58. No. I don't think so. It isn't about whether I die. It's about figuring out where. And I've decided. I'm going to see how high I can go. I want to see if it's true. If the sky opens up at the top.

Joe Hill

#59. Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.

Paulo Coelho

#60. People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

Cate Blanchett

#61. When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.

Jeannette Walls

#62. I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.

Terry Gross

#63. A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.

Andie MacDowell

#64. If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

Sam Worthington

#65. Every time a book opens, an angel coughs up a hairball.

Bart Yates

#66. Between the probable and proved there yawns
A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd,
Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse,
Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns
Our only hope: to leap into the Word
That opens up the shuttered universe.

Sheldon Vanauken

#67. Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.

Kenneth Fisher

#68. I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

Virginia Woolf

#69. But now and then there appears a novel which opens up a new world not by revealing what is strange, but by revealing what is familiar.

George Orwell

#70. Fear is energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, HEALS.

Neale Donald Walsch

#71. When brilliant minds collide, they're ordained for greatness. When they form relationships with people they wouldn't have met, it opens up more connections with people who might collaborate on research projects that will change the world.

Colin Webb

#72. 125When God wishes to guide someone, He opens their breast to islam;b when He wishes to lead them astray, He closes and constricts their breast as if they were climbing up to the skies.

Anonymous

#73. The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#74. I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

Zachary Quinto

#75. That feeling of being part of a group moving together is very powerful. It feels like it opens up a zone of possibility, a place for another self to form, also a place for a new world to form.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#76. Prayer is the connection that opens the door for all of God's blessings to be manifested in our lives. It is the process of granting permission for Heaven to show up with the finished works of Jesus.

Paul Silway

#77. I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

Caitriona Balfe

#78. It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.

Howard G. Hendricks

#79. Movement practice gets all your creative juices flowing. It doesn't just release your body, but it opens up your heart and empties out your mind, as well.

Gabrielle Roth

#80. What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forever, and something opens up and releases.

Sharon Salzberg

#81. Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

#82. Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Nile Rodgers

#83. When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Paulo Coelho

#84. Be grateful for whatever it is that opens you up.

Allan G. Hunter

#85. When we find the courage to look inside without allowing the filters of self-protection and self-preservation to blind us, it opens up a vista to personal growth that we never thought possible.

Steve Saccone

#86. It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Zhang Xin

#87. To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

Charles Baudelaire

#88. ...the controlling of the sex nature builds up a reservoir of strength, and it is this strength that opens the door to the Innermost.

None Given M

#89. For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.

Therese Of Lisieux

#90. Once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye ... combat some the ugliness in the world.

Goldie Hawn

#91. Growing up watching friends grow, from friends to lovers. Opens the eyes of many every time. Proving in this lifetime, real love still lives.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#92. Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

Isaac Hayes

#93. You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

Nick Nolte

#94. The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out.

William Tyndale

#95. I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can't do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day - and I'm not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class or cook. I'm not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.

Jessica Biel

#96. Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.

Adyashanti

#97. Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are you at the mercy of bus drivers, roadworks, decisions made by others and over which you have no control. Believe me, once you've tasted this freedom, you're hooked.

Deborah Moggach

#98. No matter what, my chest always tightens up before a race. A rush of adrenaline spikes all the way down my spine, and it's like I'm right there. Right on top of Kali, squeezed in that metal stall, looking out at the dirt with my heart in my throat. The starter opens the gates, and the bell rings.

Mara Dabrishus

#99. A child who was born with a silver spoon is likely to not appreciate all he is provided with.
And it is likely that a child who grew up from the dust to look down on others once the floods gate of success opens up for him.
It is NOT where you come FROM that matters,
But where you are GOING.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#100. All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.

Wayne Coyne