Jo Durie Quotes

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

You keep learning all the time.

I learn by going where I have to go.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

I want to continue to grow, and as long as I keep going out there doing what I'm doing and don't fall off from what I've learned already as they keep adding things on, I'll be fine.

I believe I have a lot to offer when I finish football as well. I always said I didn't want to become a manager, but I changed that view.

I have learnt many things, but there's more to learn. Every day is a new start.

I learned a lot in my last year at Livingston and even more since coming to Leeds, as a player and on the sports science side.

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

What happened happened. Important thing is what can come.