Derrick Jensen Quotes

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

We learn to do by doing.

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

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

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

You learn more doing than doing training.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Knowledge must come through action.

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.

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.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

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

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

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

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

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

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

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

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.