Tony Fadell Quotes

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

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

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

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

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

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

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

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

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

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

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

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

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

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