Rob Brown Quotes

I'm competitive, but that doesn't stop me from being realistic.

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I'm not the greatest. I'm the best available.

I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them

I learned a long time ago in politics, never say never.

I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.

I'm not one of these people who thinks I know all the answers.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them.

I'll never be too big for anything.

I'm open-minded and never think I know everything. I actually feel like I know nothing, and that allows me to learn on a different level.

I'd never be overly confident about anything.

I never had a preconceived notion about what I should do or what I should take up… I am not that intelligent.

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.

If there isn't a team that plays my type of game I don't think I could make a big difference. I have to be realistic.

I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes.

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become...appropri ately small.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.