Eleanor Catton Quotes

I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

It's extremely humbling to look around the astronaut office, see how much experience there is, see how many lessons there are to learn and it's truly starting at square one.

I had people put my feet on the ground for me and say, 'No, you don't know everything, and you need to learn this and this and this,' and it took me time to realize that.

No teacher ever skipped the student process... if you want to be a leader, you have to be a follower first.

America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.

You've got to embrace what you don't know.

Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them.

I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.

I was new at my job, and I needed to address my inexperience and weaknesses head-on.

Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn.

I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.

In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.

When I started at Boca, as well as when I got to the national team, I felt it was the top of the mountain, but they turned me around and I had to start from scratch.

I've learned to listen. I don't get everything right the first time.

You try and pick up something from everyone you work with and I grew up watching Jame Carragher and it was such an honour to train with Liverpool's first team.