Gavin Newsom Quotes

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

Thinking differently is my strength.

Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

I don’t give a damn where an idea comes from. If it’s good, use it.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don't know by what you do.