Experience Over Theory Quotes

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it.

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

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

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

You can't really learn, not in car racing. You have to make your own mistakes.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

I've worked with more than 50 directors, and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving. You just leave the bad part out.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.

I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.