Anatoly Lunacharsky Quotes

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

I've learned not to say, 'No, I'd never do that.'

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.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

[Donald] Trump, I think, is the sort of guy that if he maybe thought he'd made a little bit of a mistake, would find a way out, he wouldn't want to say, "Well, that's what I've done and I'm sticking to it, and I don't give a damn." Which is what the other people in America would be like.

I've never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible, who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility. You have to show a degree of flexibility.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

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

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.