Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

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 always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I like to think I know a lot, but I don't. I'm motivated to learn more.

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I've yet to learn but that is out there available to me.

It doesn't matter how much you already know. It's about showing humility and a willingness to learn; not just in movies, but in life in general.

I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.

Unlike office workers who improve their profession with repeated daily practice, entertainers don't have any work manual or daily workload. But, I personally set my daily workload, trying hard to invest a set amount of time to improve myself, like other professionals.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.

Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.

I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.