Boris Vallejo Quotes

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

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

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.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

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

There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

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

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

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

I believe that we learn by practice.

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.

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

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

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.