Raekwon Quotes

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

There was a stage in my career, especially with standup, where I felt, because I didn't know why I was doing well, that anyone who would tell me anything; I was sort of like, 'What did they say? Yeah, I'll take that advice.' Now I'm a bit more careful who I choose to listen to.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.