Samuel Butler Quotes

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

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

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

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

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

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 just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

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

I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

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

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

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

We learn to do by doing.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.