Sri Srinivasan Quotes

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!

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

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.

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I'll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I'll grow complacent.

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

You work on a show like 'All My Children' - we know what it is, but you're still able to grow outside of it. It's the perfect situation. I learned. I grew as an actor. I worked with professionals. I got paid.

The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.

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.

You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

I got an opportunity to do varied roles so early in my career.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

Broaden your work experience - either within your company or through your job progression in other companies.

Don't focus on reaching the C-Suite. Focus on doing great work and serving your customers and community. That's how you can find the right opportunities and get the skills and experience to get to the top in your career.