Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Helms

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.

Bill Richardson

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.

Al Gore

...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

Bridget Riley

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.

Eckhart Tolle

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.

Anthony Anderson

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.

Renee Fleming

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

Susan Sontag

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Tim O'Reilly

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

Todd Barry

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.

Lisa Kleypas

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

Nora Ephron

Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep from just looking just a little older. You're just constantly putting stuff on your face and having things removed from yourself and opening up copies of "Vogue" so that you can find new ways to throw whatever money you've managed to save into the arms of some doctor who has just come up with a new way of lasering your face that feels like electroshock and all these things.

Nikola Tesla

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.

Evelyn Underhill

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.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

Jacques Derrida

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.

Hu Jintao

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.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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.

Joko Beck

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

Joe Biden

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.

Josh Hartnett

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.

John Fahey

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Condoleezza Rice

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.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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.

Kushal Pal Singh

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.