Marc Andreessen Quotes

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

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

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

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

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

You learn more doing than doing training.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

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

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

We learn to do by doing.

One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

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.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

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

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, or talking about work, or studying about work, or even learning about work -- the best preparation 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.

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.