Eva Mendes Quotes

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

Master's degree in journalism served several purposes. It helped me to break down and understand scripts. And the discipline of getting my master's gave me a certain amount of confidence. I don't think college is the only path, but I enjoyed it and it worked out very well for me. I had some good friends with whom I could get a little crazy, but still be responsible. It was the perfect bridge from living at home to independence. I also love learning. I might have been a professional student and earned a couple of doctorates, if I didn't have to pay bills.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

I think that ultimately what drives my decisions is if I think the opportunity is going to challenge me in a way that makes me better as an actor.

When you stop learning you stop growing.

I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

My faith in God is a huge part of my life, and yeah He has blessed me with an amazing family, and group of friends. In the Bible he tells us to think positively about ourselves, to not be down on ourselves. So I just try to live the way He wants me to, and make the best decisions I can.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt like you read it in 14 minutes, because you're turning the pages so fast you can't wait to see what's going to happen.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

We teach what we need to learn.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better'.

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.

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