Quotes About Opening Up

#1. I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

Steven Spielberg

#2. The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Milton Friedman

#3. Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it's about creating a clearing. It's opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question.

Brene Brown

#4. Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Hillary Clinton

#5. Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

Andrei Sakharov

#6. I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

Sigourney Weaver

#7. Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

Ma Jian

#8. I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go
I know
nothing
but I am here to learn.

Shane Koyczan

#9. I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

Sally Mann

#10. Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. No, she's all right.

Kami Garcia

#11. Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.

Zhang Xin

#12. Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

Charles A. Reich

#13. It is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

Al Gore

#14. I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.

Nikki Sixx

#15. Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

Paul Auster

#16. Since we're opening up with our feelings and all, I feel the need to tell you that this is the gayest car I've ever been in,

Abigail Roux

#17. The nature of Paganism is that of exploring, evolution, and opening up.

Gede Parma

#18. I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

John Leguizamo

#19. Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

Hu Jintao

#20. Maybe it's about opening up your definition of family to include friends, too. Because friends are the family you choose.

Kim Holden

#21. It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#22. I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.

Jenny Lewis

#23. For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'

Richard Flanagan

#24. I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

Joseph Brodsky

#25. Are you fucking psychic?" He laughed. "I was thinking about opening up a hotline. 1-800-I-know-your-business.

Cambria Hebert

#26. One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

Susan Cain

#27. I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

Alice Cooper

#28. As the lifetime-long days passed I began to notice a profound cleansing taking place in myself as we were inmersed in the peaceful Pennsylvania farm valleys. The streams and cotton-clean clouds washed my soul and I felt myself opening up to the world.

Peter Jenkins

#29. I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

Candice Olson

#30. But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy.
I think - hope - it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person ... " I made a face.
"Like putting ammo in their hands.

Lisa Kleypas

#31. Sometimes giving means opening up and letting other know you. Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is yourself. The real you. All of you.

Marilyn Grey

#32. I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

Josh Hartnett

#33. In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

Raekwon

#34. I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

Drew Barrymore

#35. What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

Bob Beauprez

#36. Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Nora Roberts

#37. China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

Amy Chua

#38. You are a ghost. Filled with stardust, wearing the bones as the shield and the skin as the cape. Fighting every day and opening up for the new wounds in the hustle of hiding the old scars.

Akshay Vasu

#39. Around here ... we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things.

Walt Disney Company

#40. If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently

Aaron Scheidies

#41. The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.

Walt Disney

#42. Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.

Alan Greenspan

#43. I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

Olivia Wilde

#44. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

Yann Martel

#45. To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

Teresa Amabile

#46. Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.

Michael Chiarello

#47. I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#48. When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.

Nastassja Kinski

#49. I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.

Todd Barry

#50. From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group ... it all started opening up.

Kevin James

#51. Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.

Maajid Nawaz

#52. When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

Nancy Lublin

#53. In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#54. Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

Gautam Adani

#55. You say you are ready to deliver your knowledge to another person. You want to hold the Truth in your palm as if it were a precious pearl and offer it to someone special. But opening up someone's heart to spiritual light is no small task for a human being.

Elif Shafak

#56. Love is breathing heavily, it's clear she's never talked about this to anyone. You know when someone is opening up a so private, that there isn't a key.

Caroline Kepnes

#57. As one Wharton dean explains, "The students call it Game Face: they feel pressured to look successful all the time. There can't be any chinks in their armor, and opening up would make them vulnerable.

Adam Grant

#58. When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.

Taylor Swift

#59. The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

John Fahey

#60. I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

Joan Jett

#61. A Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.

Clive Ponting

#62. My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.

Steve Jones

#63. I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals ... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.

Louis L'Amour

#64. On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.

Igor Luksic

#65. Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Mary Pope Osborne

#66. The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

Kenneth Edmonds

#67. As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.

Henry Paulson

#68. There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.

Condoleezza Rice

#69. He has a vision of the top of his neck, opening up into his head like a bathroom drain. Fragments of words are swirling down it, in a grey liquid he realizes is his dissolving brain.

Margaret Atwood

#70. Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

Kevin Hart

#71. Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting - that's kind of the basis of 'Neon Future,' and that's why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.

Steve Aoki

#72. Friendship is all about opening up and letting in the highest-quality people you can find. It's about trusting a person enough to know that your dreams are supported and safe in his airspace, as well as supporting him in the same way when he needs it.

Sean Stephenson

#73. Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

Billy Joel

#74. Such grace is never held in abeyance, never earned or deserved. It is not given to some and not to others. Grace is ever present; it is only our openness to it that comes and goes. In one sense, The Way of Liberation is a means of opening up to grace.

Adyashanti

#75. As long as the people who kinda wanna go kill other people are going to go kill other people who kinda wanna go kill other people, you're killing all the right people and opening up all the best parking spaces.

Doug Stanhope

#76. In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

Hanna Rosin

#77. Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

Betty Hill

#78. If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

Dalai Lama XIV

#79. Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.

John Henry Carver

#80. Keeping it real" isn't just a matter of facing up to harsh facts. It also includes opening up to the plethora of possibilities that offer us ways of impacting the world in spite of adversity.

T.K. Coleman

#81. It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

Anthony Anderson

#82. China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.

Hu Jintao

#83. I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness ... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

Richard Eyre

#84. Opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

Garrison Keillor

#85. Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Richelle Mead

#86. 'Twilight' is reaching so many people, and I think it's a really good step in the right direction for diversity and opening up doors.

Justin Chon

#87. There was an abyss opening up between them, cutting through whatever they'd shared on the train.

Marissa Meyer

#88. Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

Arnaud Desjardins

#89. My first glimpse of the Adelaide Oval was given through the Victor Richardson Gates and up the ramp, and there it spread out before me, a green oasis. It was like another world opening up.

Barry Nicholls

#90. Growing up in Singapore, I wasn't allowed to visit China. So when I was finally able to go there after the country began opening up to tourism in the 1990s, I found it to be utterly astounding.

Kevin Kwan

#91. Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

Muriel Barbery

#92. People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

Neil Sheehan

#93. A rich and mature life involves opening up to a wider world. If we base our understanding of life only on what we personally experience, we are impoverished indeed.

Robert Strayer

#94. We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

John F. Lehman Jr.

#95. Just her and the pink switchblade. They were a good pair. Both incapable of opening up without cutting someone.

Maggie Stiefvater

#96. The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

Tim O'Reilly

#97. My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.

Jung Chang

#98. I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

Girl Talk

#99. Saying those words made a sharp, quick panic rise up in her, an aching pain that had her throat closing. "You left me," she repeated. Maybe it was only out of blind terror at the abyss opening up again around her, but she whispered, "I have no one left. No one.

Sarah J. Maas

#100. When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you're opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Ed Helms