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“In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.”

World Kind Form Order Language Goal Attention Clear Fashion Messages Draws Traditional Visuals Aspire Superiority Transparency Immunity Timelessness Typography Durability

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.”

Thinking Want Writing Book Stories Literature Shining Transparency

Author:Anne Tyler

“I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.”

Cycles Virtuous Vicious Transparency Vicious Cycles Obfuscation

Author:Jeff Weiner

“Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."”

“There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural primacy over corporate hegemony, and a rising demand for radical transparency in politics and corporate decision making. It has been said that environmentalism failed as a movement, or worse yet, died. It is the other way around. Everyone on earth will be an environmentalist in the not too distant future, driven there by necessity and experience.”

Source: Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World

“You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.”

Ifs Knows Life Giving Mean Doe Ends Light Knowledge Learning Degrees Capacity Management Lenses Transparency Beam

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.”

“Integral reality is the world’s transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.”

Men World Reality Mutual Transparency

Book:The Ever-Present Origin

Source: The Ever-Present Origin

“Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.”

Honesty Humility Building Trust Foundation Block Reputation Accountability Transparency Building Blocks Honesty Is The Best Policy Character And Reputation Trust Honesty Being Trusted

Author:Mike Paul

“Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.”

“Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant.”

Said Would Be United Citizens Warm Wet Transparency Citizens United

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.”

Play Painting Transparency

Author:Pierre Soulages

“Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.”

Writing Art Soul Lying Journey Theft Transparency

Author:Richard Flanagan

“Transparency and detail are everything in science.”

Details Transparency

Author:Ben Goldacre

“I am expecting that consumers are going to continue and exert power and influence. The idea of radical transparency is something that few brands are taking advantage of now, and most brands fight it. I’d say that in 10 years the best brands won’t be those with the best stories, sort of made up fictional stories, but those that will give an accurate and real time picture of what they are doing in the interest of the consumer, in any given time.”

Giving Years Made Ideas Real Stories Fighting Given Interest Influence Advantage Brands Radical Consumers Expecting Accurate Transparency Taking Advantage Fictional Stories

Author:Alex Bogusky

“Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.”

Way Long Hard Hard Work Waste Generosity Wasting Time Consistently Long Way Transparency

Author:Seth Godin

“A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.”

Heart Life Is Creativity Knowing Path Successful Foundation Openness Happy Life Transparency Life Happiness Successful Life Authentic Life

Author:Gay Hendricks

“Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.”

Firsts Different Values Responsibility Practice Support Share Honesty Design Development Roots Tests Responsible Programming Accountability Integration Transparency Leading Me

Author:Kent Beck

“Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.”

Said Light America Black President Steps Cases Fire Vote Merit Expansion Transparency Steps Forward Unrest Quota

Author:Denzel Washington

“What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...”

People Matter Stories Stuff Dark Deals Horror Ordinary Catastrophe Ordinary People Transparency Good Story Masquerade Encroachment Devious

Author:Joy Williams

“The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.”

Universe Accidents Treated Rational Remarkable Transparency Happy Accidents

Book:Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief

Source: Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief

“I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.”

Lines Deals Responsibility Watches Rocks Huge Amount Organization Corruption Expenses Olympics Transparency Unclear

Author:Seth Godin

“My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people's rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.”

“I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done. As an active and critical consumer, and as someone who has attempted to make the flawless and failed, I wanted a transparency of construction here. If we know how it is made and how it falls apart, we will know how to rebuild it.”

Ifs Knows Want Made Ideas Done Wanted Life Is Fall Know How Our Lives Labor Critical Active Consumers No Idea Construction Falling Apart Transparency Flawless

Author:Tom Sachs

“The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .”

Spirit Consciousness Greater Depends Despair Degrees Devil Increase Absolutes Excuse Intensity Sheer Minimum Maximum Transparency Obscurity Defiance Unqualified

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”

Artist Europe Architecture Japan Transparency Lightness

Author:Arthur Erickson

“But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.”

Absolutes Nothingness Deep Thought Transparency Opaque

Book:Morning in the Burned House

Source: Morning in the Burned House

“Eliminating spin improves transparency and trust.”

Transparency Eliminating

Author:James Kerr

“Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of a geometric order, and the transitory, changing forms of our actual world. The content of our experience results from an immaterial, abstract, geometric architecture which is composed of harmonic waves of energy, nodes of relationality, melodic forms springing forth from the eternal realm of geometric proportion.”

“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.”

Political Huge Advantage Transparency

Author:Jonathan Gruber

“People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency.”

People Heart Values Ability Vision Issues Masters Investment Transparency Ability To See

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.”

Ifs Important Left Lines Precise Compelled Transparency Unspoken Between The Lines

Author:Vera Farmiga

“And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.”

Feels Mind Heart Kind Art Home Desire Asks Rich Humility Please Pure And Love Treasure Sincerity Transparency Afar Pure Heart

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.”

Doe Balance Increase Corporate Earning Sheets Transparency Accounting Volatility Balance Sheets

Author:Diane Garnick

“If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.”

Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

“We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.”

People Knows Needs Mean Government Know How Budgets Online Accountability Legislation Transparency

Author:Carly Fiorina

“In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.”

Reality Clear Ultimate Objectives Hiding Transparency Governing Spotlight Opaque Covert

Author:Breyten Breytenbach

“The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.”

People Way Easy Offers Phones Engines Glances Transparency Easy Way Search Engine

Author:Jack Dorsey

“To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.”

Today America Powerful Records Magic Clean South Track Reputation Execution Transparent Transparency South America Track Record Magic Words

Author:Eike Batista

“Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.”

Believe Principles Absolutes Occasions Founders Transparency Wikileaks Assange

Author:Bill Keller

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