Ben Marcus Quotes

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

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

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.

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

We learn to do by doing.

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

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

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

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

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

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

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

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

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

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 learn more doing than doing training.

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

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

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.