Vicki Baum Quotes

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.

While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

I honestly try to have the approach that this is real life, this is the real world that we live in, and I don't really try to shelter [my son] from a lot of things that he's gonna see when he looks out of the window.

It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

There's more learning than is taught in books.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Things don't happen that fast in real life.

President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals.