Keren Woodward Quotes

I'd never presume to understand what it's like to be in a community I've never been a part of, but I can show up, listen and learn.

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

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

We have a lot to learn from everyone.

I believe being a true Global Citizen means you have the willingness and openness to step outside of your own boundaries, and I'm honored to represent that with TUMI.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge.

I want to learn from everybody.

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.