Openness Quotes
Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a "consecrated ingenuity".
The mind delights in making connections.
i don't think college is something you should tough out.
I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window
If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.
You can't build a wall round a village.The sun and the windwill always find their way in.
It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a familiar one.
Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.
I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.
Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"?
No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.
And do I still have that look?" he asked."Yes just there, " she kissed his eye. "The desire to love me is still there. If you look closely you can see mine for you, my tears never washed it away.
You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..
An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.
Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.
The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.
The road itself tells us far more than signs do.
It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.
Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends.
I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.
Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.
Laughter is the ultimate emotion of openness. When you laugh, you release your fears, abandon your hatred and let down your guard to embrace the flow of the Universe.
Openness is allowing and directing the energy of the Universe to flow through you freely, giving and taking with ease.
Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.
If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.
The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.
Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.
As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.
Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.
Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.
The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.
Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.
He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.
Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.
Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham
It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.
Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.