Jane Jacobs Quotes

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

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

Whatever comes my way I'm basically interested in.

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

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'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

When you're out in the field and spending time in these different places around the world, humility is one of the most important assets that will serve you well.

I've learned never to say never.

My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I'm open to everything. And I don't have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences - and as my context changes, so does what I believe.

As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.

I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over.

I wouldn't mind if I had to travel every single day. I love meeting new people and experiencing new things, making new connections with people in different places.

There's always new things to learn and new ways to do things. My eyes and my ears are always open, and I'm always looking for advice.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

I think it's very important to keep in the back of your mind: 'What if I'm wrong?'

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our minds, to accept that things are different, that they'll never be the same, for better or for worse. We have to be willing to give up what we used to believe. The more we're willing to accept what is and not what we thought, we'll find ourselves exactly where we belong.

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.

One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.

You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.