Quotes About Transparent People

#1. Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

Georg Henrik Von Wright

#2. CIf you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?

Walter Huston

#4. A glass devil is a person in whom evil becomes transparent. People simply don't see it, despite the fact that it's there all the time.

Helen Tursten

#5. Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

Nandan Nilekani

#6. I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak ... to travel ... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. People are looking for software development that actually does something useful ... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.

Kent Beck

#8. The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

Reid Hoffman

#9. Don't take the people you love for granted. Don't ever be scared to love someone with your whole heart. Be transparent.

Liza Palmer

#10. I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.

Boris Johnson

#11. Are you saying ... you can make people normal again?" I breathe out, the idea too tantalizing for my own good.
Allie nods. "That's the goal.

Natalie Whipple

#12. Time is a transparent medium. People and cities arise out of it, move through it and disappear back into it. It is time that brings them and time that takes them away.

Vasily Grossman

#13. When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.

Wallace Stegner

#14. Most people would agree that the E.U. is too bureaucratic, not transparent or democratic enough and that it often interferes too much in matters that are best left to national governments.

Nicola Sturgeon

#15. Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

Bashar Al-Assad

#17. Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers.

Geoff Mulgan

#18. Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

Ofra Strauss

#19. This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.

Eric Holder

#20. People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

Ben Carson

#21. We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

Victor Ponta

#22. But just because you're transparent about treating people poorly doesn't mean you're not an asshole for doing it.

Jennifer Tress

#23. People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Was it possible that people who wanted to die developed the ability to look slightly transparent around the edges, a hologram of themselves, empty of spirit or desire? Honor had to stop herself from passing her hand across the woman's body to see if she had substance. from: Honor's Ghost

Voula Grand

#25. The best way to deal in a transparent world is just be transparent. Let your life be authentic and let people look in. Because if they want to find out, they're gonna find out. And so to me it's given me a greater sense of accountability as a CEO. It's given me a greater opportunity to lead.

Michael Hyatt

#26. You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you're walking fast, if the sun's too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people's consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

Jerry Pinto

#27. As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Al Gore

#28. I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that.

Tom Brokaw

#29. I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which didn't exist before - where you can have instant access to information, and I want to see my government be more transparent.

Hillary Clinton

#30. People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious.

Curt Siodmak

#31. In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.

Anthony Liccione

#32. One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians ... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.

Pauline Marois

#33. Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil society, who are an essential part of realizing social and people-centred sustainable development.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#34. People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so that the people know what it is doing and can judge for themselves whether or not they like what is being done.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#35. What I believe in is being transparent and truthful and always trying to get the facts right. People will make their own judgment of whether or not they want to trust you based on how transparent you are with them and the principles that you bring to the game.

Jeremy Scahill

#36. By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

Mark Zuckerberg

#37. I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

David M. Kelley

#38. There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

John M. Ford

#39. It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.

Christopher Hitchens

#40. When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

Howard Schultz

#41. It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes, that have announced that they've got nuclear warheads, fire missiles. This is not the way you conduct business in the world. This is not the way that peaceful nations conduct their affairs.

George W. Bush

#42. People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Phil McGraw

#43. The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

Julian Assange

#44. To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.

Deepika Padukone

#45. The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

Mark Zuckerberg

#46. This is not a Black problem. It is not a white problem. It is not a police problem. It is a WE problem. We the people, for the people. It is going to take all of us being transparent in order to transform.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#47. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

Ray Dalio

#48. These people were different. Passionate, godly, sincere, authentic, transparent, hungry for Christ. It was instantly recognizable, too obvious to miss.

Craig Groeschel

#49. I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

Franz Kafka

#50. I tend to be a lot more honest and transparent with employees than most bosses are. But I've had people tell me - even those who love working with me - that I'm terrifying, which is hard for me to imagine.

Stewart Butterfield

#51. Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

Georg Buchner

#52. I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.

Billy Corgan

#53. People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

George Eliot

#54. I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

James Comey

#55. They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

Bashar Al-Assad

#56. It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

Ed Balls

#57. There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

Carlos Fuentes

#58. A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.

Dambisa Moyo

#59. Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as everything else you do, or people will call you out on it.

Frances Allen