Quotes About Experience

Having a successful career as a player does not ensure that you will be a good coach, I have to prepare myself.

Every year that I have under my belt, I'm a lot more confident and a lot more prepared for the challenges of being a manager.

Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to 'Be Prepared' to meet them.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.

Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.

That is definitely something that I feel more comfortable with now. When I did 'Lord of the Rings,' it was something I wasn't quite prepared for, I didn't know how to deal with that sort of attention, and I kind of shied away from that, but I'm better at dealing with that now - a lot better.

I don't think I have advice for female directors as opposed to male directors. I think all first-time directors should try and be as prepared as they possibly can, because it's hard!

My first professional acting job was on 'Boss'. My first acting job was basically my first acting class. I had to show up on set prepared and knowing my lines. Also, I got a chance to work with a living legend, Kelsey Grammar - that gave me hands on experience.

When you come from within the industry, you are better prepared for the industry. For example, you see your family deal with the nonsense that is written in the papers, or the highs and lows of a hit and a flop.

Funnily enough, 'Chuck' prepared me for '24.'

Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

Even though Traf-O-Data wasn't a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft's first product a couple of years later.

You take the experience, and now it's a matter of preparing yourself mentally and physically so that in the future if you find yourself in situations like that, you're able to succeed.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.