Mao Zedong Quotes

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.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

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.

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

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

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

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

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

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

Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.

We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.

If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.

Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

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.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

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