Govinda Quotes

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

Know or listen to those who know.

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.

Elders are the books of the young.

The advice of elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

All the lessons I learned from my grandfather from the day I was born until the day he passed away served me well, and I think about them and use them every day. It was much more valuable than any business school could have provided.

I want to tell the students to follow their heart and respect their parents and teachers as they are their ultimate gurus.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.