Quotes About Being Open

#1. Being open isn't the same as being weak.

Taylor Swift

#2. I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Amy Adams

#3. Thank you for being open to another more workable draft of me. It affected me profoundly.

Mary-Louise Parker

#4. Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow
for the better
working to deserve each other, was the key.

Penny Reid

#5. He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.

Pope Francis

#6. Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

Tariq Ramadan

#7. It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#8. Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

Simon Sinek

#9. A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

Bill Viola

#10. Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

Linus Torvalds

#11. Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.

Henry Cloud

#12. I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#13. Powerful Leaders are intentional about not repeating history by always being open to the unprecedented; what's in your future?

Michael Walker

#14. You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.

Martha N. Beck

#15. You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

Gloria Steinem

#16. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

Paulo Coelho

#17. You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks, and revising.

Fran Sorin

#18. Engage your fans and turn your fans into your community. Realize that we all have failures and can turn those failures into successes through tenacity and through being open to changing.

Ondi Timoner

#19. There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

Tori Amos

#20. I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.

Anna Kournikova

#21. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.

Oliver Burkeman

#22. Great wisdom is achieved by being open to the world. The world does not open unless you are willing to be open.

Alephonsion Deng

#23. What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.

John Lasseter

#24. I think part of the whole agenda of being open for business is about making sure that people can get here and also get there.

Andrea Leadsom

#25. I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

Jeanette Winterson

#26. A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

Nicholas Lore

#27. It's really cool to be around people that are younger than you who are really cool with being open about stuff.

Chaz Bundick

#28. Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

Arianna Huffington

#29. It is actually difficult to edit life. Especially in regard to feelings. Not being open to anger or sadness usually means being unable to be open to love and joy. The emotions seem to operate with an all-or-nothing switch.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#30. Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.

Jaime Murray

#31. Just to be in Boston, in Cambridge, on a Monday night was very horrifying to me. It frightens me . . . All the stores closing up by 5 or 6, coffeehouses being open maybe until 11, just the sense that the world shuts down and you're left with yourself.

Ann Douglas

#32. Emotionally, I stay healthy by being grounded in the word of God, being open and honest, never being afraid to speak my mind in love, and having good communication with those around me.

Candace Cameron

#33. Being open is art. Making a connection when it's not part of your job is a gift. You can say your lines and get away with it, or you can touch someone and make a difference in their lives forever.

Seth Godin

#34. Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It's a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

Joseph Campbell

#35. The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

Mother Teresa

#36. Don't try to be hip or cool. Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too.

Austin Kleon

#37. Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Malcolm Boyd

#38. I'm kind of feeling like I don't mind being open with the random details of my life, like I'm at a coffee shop or my toe hurts or something, but obviously other more personal areas of life where I will just never really go there.

Kina Grannis

#39. How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Joni Mitchell

#40. Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself.

Ilchi Lee

#41. Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.

Bat For Lashes

#42. It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Tommy Shaw

#43. Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous.

Vironika Tugaleva

#44. The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our heart closed in a world that would trample all over us if we let it. Being open hearted today seems to require tremendous courage.

Rajneesh

#45. Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all.

Chris Weidman

#46. I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

Bonnie Bassler

#47. Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Spike Jonze

#48. My philosophy on life is that we're here to love and to learn. And I've learned a lot, so I can't say "I wish this didn't happen or I didn't make that movie." And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I'm doing what I can to make it different.

Jennifer Lopez

#49. People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen, and they probably find it fascinating. I think more actors are doing it and being open to that and not being afraid of it, so it's becoming less of a thing.

Maria Bello

#50. Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

Judith Orloff

#51. Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

Misty Copeland

#52. I think with relationships you have to risk getting hurt. You have to learn to almost know how to let your heart go when that time comes for that right person. You have to be open to having a friendship with somebody of the opposite sex. We can't let fear keep us from being open to relationships.

Rebecca St. James

#53. I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one's sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness.

Jay Woodman

#54. It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

Klaus Schwab

#55. Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Mark Vonnegut

#56. Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleezza Rice

#57. The scriptures speak of His arms being open, extended, stretched out, and encircling. They are described as mighty and holy, arms of mercy, arms of safety, arms of love, lengthened out all the day long.

Neil L. Andersen

#58. I have always been honest with my fans, which means being open about any struggles I have had along the way.

Cesar Millan

#59. When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Mike Mills

#60. Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

Paulo Coelho

#61. The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

David Schwimmer

#62. I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

Alex Grey

#63. Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#64. I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Augusten Burroughs

#65. With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam.

Matt Mullenweg

#66. John you are not being open with me

Elizabeth Proctor

#67. The key to enjoying the journey is being open to the unknown

Kristine Carlson

#68. If we want young people to develop the habits of thinking for themselves, using their imagination, being open to new ideas, saying when they don't understand, and exploring real challenges together, then they have to see their teachers doing the same thing.

Guy Claxton

#69. There's something really creepy about the doors being open," Mark whispered. "And it's so dark inside the rooms." "What's your point?" Alec asked. "Ready to turn around and go home?" "No. Just saying that you should go in first.

James Dashner

#70. When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Tim Burton

#71. Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Nolan Ryan

#72. Being Open to the Guidance of your Own True Nature will Free Others to Do the Same

Wayne Dyer

#73. I just wanted to be open and honest, and being open and honest is a practice rather than a quality.

Stephanie Clifford

#74. The challenge is not finding the attitude, but it's really just being open and willing to go for it and try different things, and having a director that you can trust. The attitude is not something that I intended or created.

Chris Pratt

#75. To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.

George Saunders

#76. Strength; just the ability to generate a focused thrust with speed. But a tense muscle is a slow one. So the high levels of training in the martial arts teach and demand balance and relaxation as much as anything else. Clearing the mind to being open and appropriately responsive is the key.

David Allen

#77. Maybe just being open to things being connected made us see more. Now I shudder whenever I find that sort of connectedness creeping into my life.

Mark Vonnegut

#78. But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

Barack Obama

#79. they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new, for being undaunted by a setback, or for being open to and acting on criticism.

Carol S. Dweck

#80. Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

Tori Amos

#81. The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

William Shakespeare

#82. The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

Christina Aguilera

#83. Part of being open to learning is taking risks!

John Salka

#84. What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Eugene T. Gendlin

#85. By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

Ming-Dao Deng

#86. You have to be open, and being open is a daily challenge, I think.

Mike Ness

#87. Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is finding the balance between going out to get what you want and being open to the thing that actually winds up coming your way.

Ann Patchett

#88. But singleness need not be permanent. It merely means being content in our present situation while being open to marriage - and yet not consumed by the pursuit of marriage.

Christopher Yuan

#89. Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we can do nothing to save the other from his pain. (23)

Sheldon B. Kopp

#90. I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.

Mary Lambert

#91. Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

Justin Trudeau

#92. Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

Candace Cameron Bure

#93. Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

Myles Munroe

#94. Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.

Graham Elliot

#95. The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.

Michael Redhill

#96. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

#97. We are the relationships that make us; we have our being in and through relationships that place us into reality, and therefore we are open ontologically to the possibility of encounter.

Andrew Root

#98. So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

Khandi Alexander

#99. When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed open a barrel of eels and covered both dwarf and zombie with them.

Ian Livingstone

#100. It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

Pam Brown