Quotes About Learning

I had to really learn what it meant to be on a set and what the expectations were and what producers are. I had to learn who I'm talking to and what their functions are. I had a couple of gaffes: I would ask a person a question, and it wasn't their job. I had to Google their job description. That was the first big adjustment.

As a kid, I was trying to copy what I heard. Namely, I was just listening to producers I looked up to, like 45 King and Marley Marl, and trying to do what they were doing.

Writing was something that came easily to me and there's so many great producers who just teach you so much.

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

Producing is just a big learning experience.

I chose producing because I didn't know how to play any instruments.

I started out writing and producing as a way for me to get the confidence to put out my own record and to learn and to really be a student of the industry.

The only advice I would give young guys is to keep your ears and eyes open. Never see yourself as a finished product.

I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.

I don't believe a player is ever a finished product.

I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

When I first started, there really was no beauty guru community. I didn't have the right production resources. I had to learn how to edit. I didn't even have beauty products. I had to go out and buy them myself because beauty brands didn't even know what a beauty guru was.

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

During college days, I started working with a line production company.

It's very joyful to be in a productive, creative mood, but I find a lot of joy in learning and being told stories.

It can be more productive to help people learn to be 'right' than prove they were 'wrong.'

Going back to the past is not productive.

Just to see how much time is consumed looking down at your phone when you could be reading, becoming better at your own language, or learning a new language - you could be doing so many productive things. You could becoming a better student-athlete.

I still make mistakes today - I always explain to people, when you will make as many mistakes as I did, then you will know as much as I know in my profession.

The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.