Martha Graham Quotes

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

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.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

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

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

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

We learn to do by doing.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

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

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

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

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

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

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

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

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.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.