Christian Yelich Quotes

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

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.'

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

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

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.

You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

You learn more doing than doing training.

My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.

I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.

As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.

I never really learnt from anyone. I just spent a lot of time at home, knocking things out. It has been interesting going into proper studios, working with people who know everything. But I find it doesn't hinder me.