Learning by Experience Quotes

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don't do it!

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

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.

My job in MTV was my first real presenting job and I had no real idea what I was doing, but you kind of learn just by doing.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the action and not really despite myself.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

I'll always be a student. I learn by doing.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.