#openness

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. ↗

— David Cameron

#britain #characterized #independence #just #openness

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#challenged #community #free #free nations #freedom

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alone #believe #everyone #i #i do

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#almost #appetite #bad #bad thing #break

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. ↗

— Max de Pree

#beautiful #beautiful things #both #dignity #diversity

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

— Olympia Snowe

#hopefully #issues #judge #judge roberts #later

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow. But if they were spoken without regret they give you peace. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#openness #peace #communication

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#openness #relationships #experience

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#democracy #everyday #everyday life #life #means

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constraining #dangerous #destructive #dogmatic #innovation