Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I'm still learning my craft.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft.

I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.

There's something about Warren Wilson. You can gain a lot of very important things and skills that you carry over into whatever you decide to do.

All I am doing every day is soaking in everything - I'm like a sponge, from all these award-winning directors, writers, and actors - as much as I can.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do these things brings me further along the journey, and the best part is, no matter how far along I go, I have so much more to learn.

Training is always important.

I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.

After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

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

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

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.