Rashid Johnson Quotes

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

I prefer being around young people. I don't like situations from the past, definitely no nostalgia. I prefer to think of doing everything new with a different generation that has a different mentality.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.

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

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.

That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

It's good to have some older friends: they have a lot more experience than us young ones.

Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge.

There are a lot of benefits to having a team of young people, but there are many benefits to having people who've made a lot of mistakes.

We can learn from everybody, man.

I just want to open people's eyes to different things.

The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.

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

As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.

I want to learn something from my atheistic brothers and sisters, even though I'm a Christian. I want to learn something from my right-wing brothers and sisters, even though I'm a progressive. I want to learn something from the elderly, even though I'm middle-aged or tilting toward the elderly. I want to learn especially something from the youth. That's why I spend a lot of time in hip-hop studios.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.