David Mamet Quotes

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

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

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

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

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

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

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

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

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

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

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

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

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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

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.

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.

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

We learn to do by doing.

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.

You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.