Brendan Rodgers Quotes

I study for myself, my own games and others.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

I am your original autodidact.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

I like to learn on my own.

There isn't really anyone I modelled myself on.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

There was a time before my O-levels when I remember thinking I used to study hard and work hard to please my mother, like most young children. And then I realised I'm doing this for me.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

When you coach and teach leadership, most people think about them. It's like you're the leader and how do you influence them. Clearly, leaders do take their followers, their flock, their enterprise, their business - whatever - hopefully to a better place. But I think the foundation of what makes really great leaders is they lead themselves, and they're conscious about knowing themselves and coaching and leading themselves in a very profound way. The simplest of us talk to ourselves. The question is, "Do we really lead ourselves?"

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.