Opening Up famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently
-- Aaron Scheidies -
Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.
-- Alice Cooper -
China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.
-- Amy Chua -
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.
-- Andrei Sakharov -
It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
-- Arnaud Desjardins -
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 -
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
-- Billy Joel -
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.
-- Bridget Riley -
Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.
-- Charles A. Reich -
There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.
-- Condoleezza Rice -
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 -
It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.
-- Dawn Fraser -
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 -
Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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 -
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.
-- Eric Fischl -
When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities.
-- Evelyn Underhill -
But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.
-- Fareed Zakaria -
Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me in the future, is a little quicker, so if I'm going (his rhythm/breathing), then my ghost runner, the vision of me, ahead of me, like opening up and just going for it, is quicker .
-- Gabe Jennings -
A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice [is]: that government employees or people who draw the bulk of their income from government by other means should be deprived of the vote . . . It is another example of the opening up of alternatives for investigation and the presentation of new conceivable policy options characteristic of public choice, rather than a policy that all its students favor.
-- Gordon Tullock -
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
-- Hanna Rosin -
The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
-- Hans-Georg Gadamer -
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location-should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.
-- Harlan Cleveland -
China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.
-- Hu Jintao -
In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.
-- Hu Jintao -
Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.
-- Hu Jintao -
Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.
-- Jacques Derrida -
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 -
The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart
-- James Taylor -
The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.
-- Joe Biden -
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 -
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 -
Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?
-- Julie Schumacher -
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right.
-- Kami Garcia -
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 -
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.
-- Kevin James -
As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.
-- Kushal Pal Singh -
You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.
-- Leon Daudet -
Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
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 -
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
-- Ma Jian -
We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.
-- Marion Barry -
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 -
Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.
-- Michael Chiarello -
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
-- Muriel Barbery -
When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?
-- Nancy Lublin -
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 -
Im coming out with a wine... Im actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. Im also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.
-- NeNe Leakes -
I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.
-- Nikki Sixx -
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
-- Nikola Tesla -
An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.
-- Peter Sloterdijk -
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
-- Renee Fleming -
opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.
-- Rob Bell -
Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package.
-- Russ Feingold -
Friendship is all about opening up and letting in the highest-quality people you can find. It's about trusting a person enough to know that your dreams are supported and safe in his airspace, as well as supporting him in the same way when he needs it.
-- Sean Stephenson -
I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up
-- Shane Koyczan -
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy -
I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.
-- Todd Barry -
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
-- Yann Martel -
I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part.... I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.
-- Beat Streuli -
Clearly America businesses are interested in opening up new markets not just in Cuba, but all over the world.
-- Carlos Curbelo -
...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.
-- Clive Ponting -
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.
-- Emily Barton -
You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles.
-- Future -
Recognize that both men and women might be more comfortable opening up to a woman than a man. Use that to your advantage.
-- Ivy Meeropol -
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
-- John Lehman -
Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down to just lyrics and the story inside the lyrics, and trying to make them really mine.
-- Lizz Wright -
I've been burned a few times by people I've once considered good friends. When I call someone my "friend," I open up and share my entire life with them. That always makes me feel a little vulnerable, but I just love the idea of people mutually opening up to each other and sharing wisdom and life experiences together.
-- Melanie Iglesias -
So it's like your brain has a large filing cabinet and it's opening up each drawer and it's taking in various images and memories from the day, consolidating what it needs to and puts in whatever file. And then if there's something that doesn't fit in any of the files and doesn't really belong, you'll forget about it. So it's a way of really getting a succinct way of storing things in your brain.
-- Shelby Harris -
The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
-- Tim O'Reilly -
Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.
-- Zhang Xin -
Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you do all of those things, but it also shows the performers in a very raw state. They have to literally upset themselves to get to that position sometimes. You don't need a load of people judging you or not being interested in what you're doing or being an ass on set because it ruins it.
-- Ben Wheatley -
I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.
-- Paul Morley -
Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.
-- Robert Biswas-Diener -
When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is a fearless place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place ... To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation; it's lightening up and opening up space and time for something new and wonderful to happen.
-- Vicki Robin -
The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
-- John Fahey -
You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.
-- Leon Daudet
