Adena Friedman Quotes

What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?

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

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

Every day is a learning day.

You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

My goal is to always be improving my skills.

I'm interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

Every new project, every new team and everything teaches you with something which you haven't learnt or done before.

If I believe that I have done it all, there's nothing more for me to learn and explore.

It's cool to challenge myself to learn new things as opposed to going to play basketball in the park for millionth time.

Think of something new you’ve actually learned in the past week; if you can’t think of anything, get comfortable where you’re at because you’re not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living.

Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.

I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new friends. I work with talented people. And each project and experience seems to be better than the last. I seem to be topping myself all the time. I think to myself: "It can't get better, it can't get better..." And then something happens that makes me feel like I'm truly richer for the experience.

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

Each of us, whatever our talents, has service to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Practice makes us what we shall be.

You can only learn when you teach.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

Education is the great engine to personal development.