David Perry Quotes

One of my goals is to educate myself more as a woman in this business.

The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.

This is always one of my big pet peeves is that 65% of NBA players, three years out of the NBA, are broke. I mean, so, maybe maturing a little more on the front end and getting an education might serve you well down the road.

I might take a little time off from school to train. I'd be a totally different animal if I trained full time.

I love the women who are coming back to school and getting their degrees because they're so focused.

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

I saw school as a business and, once I had got what I needed out of it, I left.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

And it's just my opinion that I don't think film school is necessary for filmmakers. But I don't want to discourage someone who really wants to learn that way.

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

I left school, and I went to work in a computer company. I was in my late teens.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

The more I learn and grow, the more I feel fulfilled, and even if I'm shooting a commercial for a car or a computer, I try to deliver a filmmaker's point of view where I can learn from the experience. Then I really enjoy it.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

I think the things that I learned that stick with me are things you often repeat, even today, which is never stop learning.

After Class 10, I kept away from films.

The actor's journey to learn should never stop.

Attending Seattle Central was an awesome experience - it taught me a lot about discipline in a great way.

Every day, I want to learn something new; I want to move up.

I've always said I didn't want to coach. But I can't coach in college because I don't have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.

I did a job. I completed my Matric and my Bachelors. I did a marketing job. I worked as a bus hostess. I did a lot of jobs; I struggled a lot. I got out from there. The first thing I did when I got out of Darul Aman was my Matric. Then I did my Bachelors privately; I kept doing it.

Quite often, I have to work hard to improve my technical capacity, if you will, before the demands of a new work come within reach. And I find that very stimulating.

Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.