William Weld Quotes

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, or talking about work, or studying about work, or even learning about work -- the best preparation is work.

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.

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

All directors are different. Certainly, the directors that I respond to the most are guys that figure it out by doing it, not by thinking or studying. Also, the kind of actor that I think I am - I learned about theater doing theater, not studying theater. I think that traditional school can be great, but also it can stifle original thought.

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

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

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up your knowledge of the world is by discovering it and learning about it, not through books, but by being there.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

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

You learn more doing than doing training.

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

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

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

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

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

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

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

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

Experience first, then intellectualize.