Andrew Yang Quotes

You learn more doing than doing training.

Business leaders regularly complain that young people don't leave school with the right skills. Encouraging young people to be entrepreneurs makes the connection between school and the world of work, teaching them about practical thinking, team-work, communication and financial literacy.

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

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

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.

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

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

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.

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.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

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.'

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

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

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

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 have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

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.

Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.