Sarah Jeong Quotes

There are two things people in public life don’t like to say. First is ‘I made a mistake’, and second is ‘I don’t know.’

I like someone who's focused and can tell me what they've done well and not well and who's very open, honest, and self-aware.

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

I make my mistakes in public.

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

I have made mistakes in the past, but when I have, I have always said so.

Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

There’s nothing wrong with a politician saying ‘I don’t know.’ Especially in a disaster there is nothing wrong with saying ‘I don’t know.’

People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.

I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the King cannot be criticized, it means that the King is not human.

You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.

Remembering in an honest way means admitting the truth.

We are ready to be criticised by any journalists because we know we are not perfect.

The mystery is cool, but, at the same time, if I'm trying to empower people, I have to be an open book. You can see my flaws, the mistakes I've made. From that, make your own judgment and move on your own path.

A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.

This is bad for policy-making - if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking.