Gregory Fried Quotes

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I try not to be overly analytical.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.

I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Reasonable people can have differences.

I would never say don't have an argument.

I'm very inquisitive. I love hanging around people who can teach me. I ask a lot of questions. And I'm very introspective and self-critical.