Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes

Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other people's point of view, you are consorting with death. Everything that is old and close to death is brittle and breaks apart including our thinking. So always stay flexible and soft and listen to others with caring. And truthfully, all of the verses hit me - especially when you think about them for days, and then write on them.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

If I know somebody's right about something I take it from them.

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

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

I wish at all events to retain at all times a judicial habit of not condemning a thing utterly until I have heard what is to be said for it.

Consult with the ignorant as with the wise.

I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful.

I have to accept constructive criticism.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.

The least anyone can do is pay attention to their parents and people who are elder to them.

We women, we're always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It's also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I'm not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available.

I'm just going to be a sponge. I'm going to be a good teammate. I'm going to be a hard worker, earn my respect first.

Don't shoot me down without giving me an opportunity.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

I'm not a get-off-my-lawn guy. I embrace the new generation.

I'm an improvisational actor. I like to do my own thing. But once in a while, I think you should have the self-restraint to let someone else dictate the story.

We have to learn. We have to listen to where people are. We have to listen to where the Spirit is working in the lives of people.

You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.

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.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders.