Openness Quotes
The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.
Culture is nested in context, not genes.
Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.
A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.
Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.
Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.
We need to pay attention with a particular attitude: one of openness, curiosity, and receptiveness.
To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening.
Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy
The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.
We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.
Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
We always get help we ask for. "Knock and the door will open" Make sure it's the right door.
Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.
He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.
Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.
The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.
Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.
Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.
Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.
I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding,
I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.
Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?
My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.
A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.
The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.
Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.
As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.
David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams
The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.
Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.
College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.
Children live life as a controlled experiment.
