Jim Peebles Quotes

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.

At the beginning of my career, I can honestly say there were a few things I was doing wrong, and I was wondering why I was going a little bit off track.

You evolve with each and every film you do. In every film that I did, I learnt something or the other, and I am constantly learning and hopefully becoming better.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

I've written six seasons of a TV show with great help from an incredible staff of writers and other collaborators, but I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I've kind of freed myself of the expectation that I ever will.

I know that I need to keep growing as a player.

But when you look at some of the other guys who have started with their careers in management, they all started with no experience. You have got to start somewhere.

Growth is a sub-conscious activity, and I learnt a lot in this course, and I'm always open to learning and grasping new things from people. I'm learning with every film, and my confidence levels and technique is also getting better with each film.

For eight years, I taught special-needs preschool for 18 months to 3-year-olds. It's what I was gonna do with my career for a while, and then I got a little burnt out.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

It's no good to do a piece once and then move on because it doesn't have time to develop. I try to play seven or eight concerti in a season, and generally one or two of those are new for me.

If you're going to be a professional you continue to grow.

I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wanted to work there because it looked like the hardest thing I could find, and I loved being on a steep learning curve. I progressed quickly, and two years out of college, I was managing a small team of people.

Given the rapid rate of change, the old paradigm of one-off education followed by a career will no longer work: life-long learning is a must, and it is up to governments and employers to invest in training and for employees to commit to constantly update their skill set.

Racing is full of 'what-ifs.' Like anything else in life, you learn from your mistakes and move on to the next challenge.

I take time with my films and I want to work on every script properly before I move on to something else.

The beauty of the media business is all about what is next. You put your mistakes behind you. Learn from them and move on to the next project. Having some degree of success is integral to a risk-taking balance.

This knowledge that you might have to really reorganize and redefine yourself and build new skills is really important.

I've done a lot of television over the last years, and you know, with some television productions, if you can do with just one take, you can move on and do something else.

A career is about learning to adapt yourself to the new environment and learning to sink or swim.

I'm smiling every single day because every opportunity I've been given feels like a baby in Disneyland, I'm constantly hoping to move on to the next job.

When you're starting out, say yes to everything you can.

It kind of came a little bit easier in Nationwide once I figured out what I needed to do driving-wise.