Maud Adams Quotes

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

Whatever you do, whether you're a journalist or a player, you want to see what you can do - that's why you're doing it.

I wanted a new experience, to learn another language. I wanted to be different. I wanted people to realise I'm taking my coaching career very seriously. I wanted to create my own pathway.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

I just wanted to go to the right team, a team that was going to allow me to learn and come in and just be me.

We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.

The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.

Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.

I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new friends. I work with talented people. And each project and experience seems to be better than the last. I seem to be topping myself all the time. I think to myself: "It can't get better, it can't get better..." And then something happens that makes me feel like I'm truly richer for the experience.