Gina Raimondo Quotes

People never confess to failure. They should.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations - things I could never believe possible - and then have to try to find solutions.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

You cannot solve a problem that you do not admit exists.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

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.’