Duffy Quotes

Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

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

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

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting.

Experience is a great teacher.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

An important skill for all SpaceXers is the ability to accept critical feedback. This is key to anyone's growth and becoming better at what they do.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.