Swoosie Kurtz Quotes

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

You have to be coachable.

I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

I have told many times I am always a student willing to learn new things.

You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.

It is very important to learn. And I try to learn from everything around me.

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

I want to learn from everybody.

I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.