April Bloomfield Quotes

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

For the majority of my career, I've been surprised that I've been able to sustain any kind of a plan. I was always happy to have the job, and I was having a good time. I was growing. But I don't feel all that strongly about my work.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're passionate about, then lock down. Even if you want to start a business, it's helpful to work, see how other businesses are run.

Interning is so important.

When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.

If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

Working is the best way to understand and grow, as an actor, in my opinion. That's been my experience.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.

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

Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That's the career path.

My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.