I would say the biggest risk I always take is going in front of a live audience. There's nothing more risky to do. You have to really leave yourself open to your own authenticity, and you find that out pretty quick.
Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
With love, even the rocks will open.
We have to be very careful, we have to be very vigilant but to think that Apple won't allow us to get into her cell phone - who do they think they are? Now we have to open it up.
The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
A noble heart is a window to find an open mind.
… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
. . . and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again.
There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.
No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.
The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
My life is pretty much an open book.
Each one of us in Café Tacvba is a composer and we come to the group with songs written out, musically and lyrically. Occasionally, there's a collaboration between us. But each song is almost always written by one of us, and then we all figure out the arrangements. Up until now there hasn't been a moment where the composer explains the song and says, "I want to say this or that. " It's always open for interpretation.
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.