Herb Ritts Quotes

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I am your original autodidact.

My high school didn't really have a good training program, so I did it on my own.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

We want to hire people who are self-learners.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.