Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: 'She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

To learn new things one has to be open and vulnerable..

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?

During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

• Judge less–or at least later.• Give new ideas and images a chance.• Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own.• Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.• Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260).