Openness Quotes

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency.

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

We thought the new openness was refreshing.

But G2E, with 700 exhibitors, shows it's an open industry. Las Vegas has thrived on openness and we should send a signal the industry is open.

The academy [members] are strong advocates of scientific openness while ensuring that nothing is done to aid terrorists.

It's better than what it was. Now we're getting to at least the pretense of openness. Hopefully we'll get to the substance of openness eventually. It's evolving, but it's still prehistoric.

It's a matter of looking at things freshly each time you look at them, a matter of openness.

Based on the level and openness of communication, we have been able to create a good rapport (with the South Kingstown School Committee). When the council makes budget decisions, we ask the School Committee for a list of programs that would be impacted and specifically where they will have to cut back.

When I was an executive ... relationships within the company and at board level where characterized by openness and trust. We were mercifully free of company politics and blame culture.

very taken by the openness to the approach.

On the Continent you find varying shades of openness. There is a wide variety of views as to the extent one should allow raw capital to be allowed to do its work.

[Perez is a wonderful storyteller in the piece showing a rare openness.] People had told me 'Tony Perez was private. He's not controversial. He won't say too much,' ... But he was so unbelievably open. It's the subject. They (Latin ballplayers) all want to talk about this.

It is very encouraging that in Kuwait there is now more openness to talk about corruption. If we have a greater degree of transparency, this is the first step but it is not the only step that has to be taken.

That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts.

As an operator, we like openness but we want a certain degree of, I wouldn't like to say control, but ability to innovate.

Students were talking about his connectivity and openness.

He has expressed an openness to dialogue in the past.

There is, ... no single global strategy that works in terms of democratic openness. Sometimes it happens from the bottom up and sometimes it happens from the up down, and to be successful it usually has to work in both ways. There has to be elite that wants change, though that desire can be supported and driven by popular participation. For example in Chile, the Philippines and Korea it required pressure on leaders on top to open up their systems and those pressures couldn't have come only from civil society. In Ukraine and Georgia on the other hand there was obviously a big push from below -- pressure in both directions is necessary. There is not one single strategy that produces democratic transition.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

It's just an awful idea. The presumption of openness in government is there for a reason -- we need transparency in government.

That suggests a lot of openness to more solid biblical discipling.