Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

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

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

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.'

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

I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.

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

I've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.

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.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

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

I believe that we learn by practice.

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

Experience first, then intellectualize.

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

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

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