Michael Pitt Quotes

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

You learn more doing than doing training.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, or talking about work, or studying about work, or even learning about work -- the best preparation is work.

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

The thing that what we're taught in the public school system is everything you should know, I disagree with that. The most brilliant people in the world were dropouts - not that I'm pro-dropping out.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.

One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.

I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.