Sandra Bullock Quotes

For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.

I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.

Those who are humble enough to learn anew will succeed in this new age.

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

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.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be 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.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.