gaining insights Quotes

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Every project you're involved in and any character that you're invested in ... you learn a message from that experience. I know that sounds a little cheesy, but it's true. Its kind of funny the parallel that I drew from that, you kind of learn something and you get to apply it to the next thing.

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun. You don't know everything, and that is so okay, because there are many people who want to help you along your journey. I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.

I just want to meet as many people as I can and talk with as many people as I can, but whatever allows me to do that then that's my main goal. It's just to understand as much as I can about life and how it happens.

I believe that it is imperative that we learn from the mistakes.

Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.

I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.

Small facts lead to great knowing.

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.