Wayne Dyer Quotes

Be assertive, but don't forget to look around. I realized there are other opinions that can be more useful to me than just sticking to my guns.

I think the key to improv is always listening. It's embracing. It's positivity. It's hearing things and not shutting them down.

I don't have hard edges.

If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it.

I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.

I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.