Hyman Rickover Quotes

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

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.

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

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

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.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

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

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

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

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

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

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.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

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

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

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

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.