Frank Herbert Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

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

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 do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

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

We learn to do by doing.

My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.