Gervinho Quotes

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

I used to be very hands-on, but lately I've been more hands-off and I plan to become more hands-on and less hands-off and hope that hands-on will become better than hands-off, the way hands-on used to be.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Watching something is nothing like doing it.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is.

In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

You don't study photography. You do it.

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.

I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

I believe that we learn by practice.

A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.