Dan George Quotes

I have always listened to elders in my life.

Elders are the books of the young.

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.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

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 think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

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

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

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

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

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.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

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

Know or listen to those who know.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

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.

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

If you're an old cat around young girls, you got to have somethin' to bring to the table.

It is important to watch and learn from the seniors in the team.

I think you can always learn lessons by the guys who came before 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.

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others who have been doing this a lot longer than I have.