Rod Taylor Quotes

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I learned life from some good teachers.

It's OK to not have all the answers, and in fact, the more extraordinary people you are able to surround yourself with, the better you will become.

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.