Kathleen Flinn Quotes

But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

My formal education as an extension to my college degree in journalism was the time that I spent working with the student newspaper. I would argue that my greatest education occurred by working for the student newspaper. It wasn't necessarily the classroom work that made my formal education special. It was the idea that I had the opportunity to practice it before I went into the real world.

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

I believe that we learn by practice.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

Eight years of steady acting training nonstop... three years in the profession. And I'm still in the apprentice mode and I'm still watching everybody and learning.

It's been fun to get out and work with a lot of coaches. I've broadened my knowledge.

As a cricketer, you need to keep moving and learning every day.

It's similar to basketball: when you go to different gyms and win or lose, you learn something new. So when kids get out of the classroom, go to a new environment and meet different people, it opens their eyes to new things, and they have fun learning.

By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

I think many people grow on the job.

I look to gain experience wherever I play.

Generally, when I am working, I tend to learn from my seniors and juniors.

I feel like I've paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.

All of us just go to college and waste our time and to pass our exams. So just learning journalism does not mean I'm good at it or any of the journalists are, either. There is no difference; it's just class, and it's just college.

Every piece of work has been a learning experience.

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

I've been watching some film, understanding what I can work on, what I can get better at.

I think of how much I've learned from doing television, and it is so invaluable.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

Training is always important.