Ringo Starr Quotes

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

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

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

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

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.

I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

I am no police, I don't even have any educational degree, but I have a degree in life management.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.