Pharrell Williams Quotes

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.

Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

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

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Everything is a learning experience for me.

For an artiste to grow, for a person to grow, you have to learn. A learner cannot afford to have an ego. Learning can never stop. If it does, then it is death.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others.

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

A willingness to drop your ego and let yourself look foolish. You almost have to enjoy looking vulnerable. You'd be surprised how many people don't want to do that.

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.