Opening Up Quotes

• opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.

  Rob Bell

  Dream, Soul, Naked

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• When I've been open and accepting of where I am, things start opening up.

  Eva Mendes

  Accepting, Opening

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up

  Shane Koyczan

  Art, Flower, Avalanches

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• If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Focus, Helping

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• I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

  Joan Jett

  Fun, Believe, Struggle

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• I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

  Kanye West

  Notebook, Giving, Loud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Frontiers, Activity

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• There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being.

  Joko Beck

  Ends, Humans, Human Beings

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• Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

  Nora Roberts

  Loss, Giving, Different

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.1043, Penguin

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• I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

  Bill Richardson

  People, Bigs, Dialogue

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• The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Loss, Attachment

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• People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

  Neil Sheehan

  Thinking, People, Diaries

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• I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

  Channing Tatum

  Friends, Thinking, People

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• Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!

  Jaime Hernandez

  Mean, Car, Research

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• I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

  Dorothy Allison

  Meaningful, Pain, Creating

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• Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Book, Reading, World

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2018

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• The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Entrepreneur, Reform, Patterns

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.132, Routledge

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• We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ] if we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.

  Alan Greenspan

  Country, School, Average

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• Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Dream, Country

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• I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Jobs, Thinking, Keys

  "Exclusive: Sigourney Weaver Talks ABDUCTION, VAMPS and IT IS WHAT IT IS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

  Josh Hartnett

  Dating, Cans Of Worms, Feels

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• When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

  Ed Helms

  Doors, Trying, Might

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• ...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

  Garrison Keillor

  Smart, Keys, Style

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• The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Collaboration, Possibility, Opening

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• When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me, my stomach was always hungry, and my fear and distrust kept me from opening up to new friendships. I thought the war was over when I left Cambodia, but I realize now that for survivors and all those involved, the war is never over just because the guns have fallen silent.

  Loung Ung

  War, Gun, America

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