#transparency

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#either #hope #i #i write #read

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#testimony #transparency #courage

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#accountability #communicating #constituents #greater #our

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#clear #covert #even #governing #hiding

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#counts #life #much #transparency #work

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#administration #darkness #dawn #democracy #emanated

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#man #more #nothing #often #passes

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#color #did #doing #film #hate

I loved her so much, but she vanished from my life. She didn’t just suddenly disappear, but she slowly began losing her opacity until eventually her transparency was 100%.
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #life #love #relationships

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#days #free #free press #government #i