Sam Rayburn Quotes

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.

The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

Some people have bigger egos than others. You have to take a lot of abuse, and take it in and not respond, because you don't want conflicts on the movie, you don't want to start screaming at people even when they treat you - even when they're not behaving properly, because you want them to do their job, and keep on doing it.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.