Mao Zedong Quotes

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

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 want to see myself as a student. Keep learning, keep improving, keep your eyes and ears open.

I'm going to be a guy who can defend a bunch of different positions.

You have to let go of the control and allow things to develop. You need to have a flexible attitude, especially working with kids.

A good learner learns from everything!

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

In fact, our need to feel like big shots keeps us wedded to inadequate perspectives on the world, keeps us from exploring and dealing with what doesn't fit into those perspectives. We should be trying to formulate a bigger, richer perspective to accommodate what doesn't fit, but no matter how beautiful and true that new perspective looks to us, we should always be prepared to acknowledge that it doesn't accommodate something we haven't yet confronted.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different.

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.