A Quote by bell hooks

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

bell hooks

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bell hooks
American - Critic
Born: September 25, 1952

Honesty is a foundation, and it's usually a solid foundation. Even if I do get in trouble for what I said, it's something that I can stand on.

Charlamagne tha God

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Gerald R. Ford

My career is based on openness and honesty.

Kim Kardashian

Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.

Niko Kovac

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Frank Ocean

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

bell hooks

That's insightful, but equally insightful is what they say afterwards. The other thing that I always point out is it's one thing to talk to the candidate. It's quite another to talk to the staff, and that's when you find out what's really going on.

Kurt Meyer

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Audre Lorde

I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

Cheryl Strayed

Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there's no separation between you and the entire moment.

David Deida

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

Ridley Scott

I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.

Bill Gates

I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

Dalai Lama

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

Penn Dayton Badgley

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.