Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

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.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

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

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

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

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.'

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

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

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

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

All directors are different. Certainly, the directors that I respond to the most are guys that figure it out by doing it, not by thinking or studying. Also, the kind of actor that I think I am - I learned about theater doing theater, not studying theater. I think that traditional school can be great, but also it can stifle original thought.

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.

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

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

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

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinée in Hull, it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction.

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.