Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

If you teach someone your craft, while you're teaching them, you're going to learn because you're going to get better at teaching, which is going to make you better at whatever you're doing.

It helps you as a person when you're teaching something to somebody to understand it even better.

I learn from teaching. Having to break things down and explain them makes me a better dancer.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

I learned a lot from Cherry Jones, from the questions she asked and the opinions she had.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.

While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly.Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day-to teach and be taught.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

You can only learn when you teach.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

I learn lessons with every interview I give.