Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes

I wouldn't impress my opinions on anyone.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

I never underestimate anybody.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

And at the end of the day as an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

I know to shut up when I don't know what I'm talking about.

Exercise humility and restraint.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

I am not overconfident.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

Always sing below your potential.

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

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.