Herb Kelleher Quotes

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

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

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

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Sometimes I do have to find out things the hard way.

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

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

We learn to do by doing.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.

If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

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

I've learned a lot from my mistakes.