John Legend Quotes

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

You learn more doing than doing training.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

No one was like, 'Here's how you swing.' It was just like, 'Let's go hit and figure it out along the way.' I always kind of figured it out.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

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

The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

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

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

It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'

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.

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.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

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

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

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 never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

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.