Top 100 Quotes About Transparency
#1. A person motivated by love rather than fear will not only obey the letter of the law, but will eagerly seek out new ways to carry out business with transparency and integrity.
Timothy Keller
#2. The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.
Uwe Reinhardt
#3. I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.
John Thune
#4. 23andme is very independent and committed to focusing on transparency.
Anne Wojcicki
#5. In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#6. More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
Michel De Certeau
#7. Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.
Dale E. Jones
#8. Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.
Ken Auletta
#9. Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.
Harsha Bhogle
#10. The unheard to hear - the unseen to see - the more to be understood: transparency. A purposeful guiding to a place of progression where ends come together and a bridge exists for the seeking to cross over onto a road of new and lasting hope.
Calvin W. Allison
#11. Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
Bill Keller
#12. The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.
Mona Simpson
#13. when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency
Luc Zandvliet
#14. Love requires commitment, flexibility, transparency and loyalty. Happy Valentines Day 2017.
Euginia Herlihy
#16. She wasn't going there again. Ever. Nope, she needed transparency from a man. And Parker, for all his bad-boy, cowboy 'tude and cocky swagger, wasn't anything close to transparent. At all. And that made him downright dangerous to her.
Jill Shalvis
#17. We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.
John Kasich
#18. While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.
Narendra Modi
#19. But nothing is more opaque
than absolute transparency.
Margaret Atwood
#20. I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency.
Marsha Blackburn
#21. Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
Barack Obama
#22. Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes ...
Joy Williams
#24. You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.
Peter Diamandis
#25. I am saying that I am trying to minimize the donations to these groups by talking to diplomats. The transparency bill also has the purpose of enabling the Israeli public and members of Knesset to know whose interests certain organizations represent.
Ayelet Shaked
#26. We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.
Paul Ryan
#27. Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#28. The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
Alexander Pope
#29. I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.
Dutch Ruppersberger
#30. The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.
Hosni Mubarak
#32. Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline
Vinod Rai
#33. Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.
Mike Quigley
#34. Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.
Evan Osnos
#35. You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.
Jeff Bezos
#36. Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
John Gerzema
#37. Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age
the Age of Transparency
the facts and the truth will out.
Imelda Marcos
#38. Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.
Brian Houston
#39. Good salespeople sell value and social media is the best place to find this value because of its transparency.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#40. For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.
Marissa Mayer
#41. I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.
Helmut Newton
#42. Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There
Patrick Lencioni
#43. Both transparency and trust form the basic component of truth itself. With truth, there is no need to be untrue. If one is truthful, then there is godliness because God is truth. And when godliness is on your side, success is guaranteed.
Vishwas Chavan
#44. By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really dressed to go out.
James M. Cain
#45. Google is a consumer brand and people need to be comfortable. If we were just an advertising brand we wouldn't have the same concerns. We've always tried to promote transparency and choice among our users.
Susan Wojcicki
#46. I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
Julian Assange
#47. Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.
Glenn Greenwald
#48. Every citizen must be actively aware of, participating in, and overseeing research, and that research should be focused on creating prosperity and peace, not war and poverty or suicidal needs.
Transparency, which engenders truth, is the foundation for all this.
Robert David Steele
#49. Transparency and detail are everything in science.
Ben Goldacre
#50. Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.
Chris Matakas
#52. Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#53. Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul.
Richard Flanagan
#54. I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.
Luis Gonzalez
#55. Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency.
Jean Baudrillard
#56. Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Bill Gates
#57. I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
Vera Farmiga
#58. Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.
Jonathan Turley
#59. From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
Sharon Salzberg
#60. I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.
Anderson Cooper
#61. While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.
Michael Bennet
#62. The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
Julian Assange
#63. Although designers continue to dream of 'transparency' - technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt - both creators and audiences actually like technologies with 'personality.'
Brian Eno
#64. Perhaps it would be better if your whole life had the same transparency as in its final moments.
Timothee De Fombelle
#65. Eliminating spin improves transparency and trust.
James Kerr
#66. Your trustworthiness quotient depends on your transparency ratio.
Shubha Vilas
#67. Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.
Gina McCarthy
#68. We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.
Mitt Romney
#69. Honesty, transparency, conscientiousness, and fair dealing should be bedrock corporate principles.
Dan Ariely
#70. The Veil of Consciousness is a thin sheath that
I wear to view the transparency of the life that
Surrounds me.
Sandra Proto
#71. While markets are supposed to ensure transparency by showing orders to everyone simultaneously, flash orders are currently allowed because of a loophole in securities regulations that allows for immediate trades.
Charles Duhigg
#72. What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
George Jean Nathan
#73. Now, with the Transparency Act, the government has set out to reveal wrongdoing by chiefs, not the Department. There is nothing wrong with the act except the context, the attitude and the political purpose.
John Ralston Saul
#74. He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.
Victor Hugo
#75. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.
Jonathan Gruber
#76. We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.
Hillary Clinton
#77. In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.
Martin Sorrell
#78. The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
Arthur Erickson
#79. We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.
Mike Quigley
#80. When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.
Alexandra Robbins
#81. I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.
Neale Donald Walsch
#82. There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.
Jeremy Seabrook
#83. And the spectators must not be allowed to see too much. President Obama has set new standards in safeguarding this principle. He has, in fact, punished more whistle-blowers than all previous presidents combined, a real achievement for an administration that came to office promising transparency.
Noam Chomsky
#84. Truth's nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency.
T.F. Hodge
#85. We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years
Gwen Ifill
#86. Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
#87. Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
Seth Godin
#88. An open society is a healthy society; transparency is necessary to trust.
Lauren Oliver
#89. This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It's no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It's the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important.
Tim O'Reilly
#90. First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.
Astra Taylor
#91. Transparency isn't a replacement for integrity and honesty; it's an infrastructural tool that allows for those attributes to occur - but only if the public is willing act upon the information that they receive as a result of transparency in a conscious, deliberate way.
Clay A. Johnson
#93. In this transparency, the footprints of the little birds spoke with a muffled voice. What they spoke of was entirely without significance, or else something capable of lifting a life off its hinges: there was no way of knowing.
Alessandro Baricco
#94. Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.
Peter Brook
#95. Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
Clark Coolidge
#96. Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.
David Byrne
#97. When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch. For
Lang Leav
#98. There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.
Ben Fountain
#99. The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.
John Polkinghorne
#100. Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.
Angela Carter
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