Learning Through Action Quotes

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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

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

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

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

I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!

Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.