Nia Long Quotes

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

Broaden your work experience - either within your company or through your job progression in other companies.

I look to gain experience wherever I play.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training.

Experience helps you do better in your work.

I think many people grow on the job.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

Interning is so important.

If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

It has been most rewarding to work in St. Louis, California, and New York and watch the people there grow and be promoted and go off to other opportunities and positions of responsibility.