Dan O'Brien Quotes

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

I try to work with people the way they prefer.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I believe you can work with anybody.

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

When I work with new girls, I talk their ear off and try to make them as comfortable as possible because I remember what it was like when I first started.

I could have coached better.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

I play well with everybody.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.