Julie Plec Quotes

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

Coming in, you're so concerned about learning your job and the things you need to do to be successful individually. Once that's good, you can start to focus on learning guys around you and learning defenses and what they're trying to do to you.

I have only worked with Saroj Ji once in my life and in the one time that I worked with her, I learned so many things.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Throughout my career, I was blessed with great teams and great teammates.

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

Exceptional employees don't possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday EQ skills that anyone can incorporate into their repertoire.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.