Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility
The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them.-RVM
It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.
People change for two main reasons: either their minds have been opened or their hearts have been broken
What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.
I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.
Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.
