James Hetfield Quotes

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

… pinheaded, anarchistic cranks.

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

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

You don't study photography. You do it.

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere.

I am a rebel.

That's what Tupac and I got from my dad - the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

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

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.