Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

Experience is a great teacher.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

A lot of things in life, you can be told the right way to do it, but you've kind of got to learn by your own mistakes. It's just human nature.

Experience can be a great teacher.

Experience is a good teacher.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

There was a time in my life when I tried a lot of different things, different looks. Between the ages of 17 and 22, there were a lot of bad looks. But I guess you learn from your mistakes. After that, I kind of found my style and what I like to wear.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.