Practical Experience Quotes

I worked in a factory for six months and was a firefighter in Cookeville for several years. They paid my tuition, and I got a lot of life experience during that time that helped me grow up.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

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

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Knowledge must come through action.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

I'm better learning by somebody showing me something. I got to see and then do it. You can't be scared to ask for help.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

I didnt go to film school, i went to films