Barbara Corcoran Quotes

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

Education is the first step on the ladder to economic empowerment.

If you are willing to be a lifelong learner, you can be a lifelong employee.

Every job I take, I really want to learn something.

You go and find work wherever it is, and you learn from it. No matter what the experience is, you can always file something away as knowledge.

That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

I try to aim high and put myself in positions where I'm the least experienced person.

Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.

I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning.

I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.