325 Quotes About Openness

The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question ‘‘Did the professor respect you?

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

Peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.

At that moment Homero saw him with his heart and laid down his weapons

I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I’ve grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let’s peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,

She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long.

His failure to adapt to new techniques, to pander (his own word), probably made his supporters love him all the more, and probably also narrowed his political base.

You are no longer responsible for anyone's opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you either... You don't need to be right and you don't need to make anyone else wrong...you are no longer afraid of being rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted...you can walk into the world with your heart completely open, and not be afraid to be hurt.