Robert Wilson Quotes

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

You learn more doing than doing training.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

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

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, or talking about work, or studying about work, or even learning about work -- the best preparation is work.

All directors are different. Certainly, the directors that I respond to the most are guys that figure it out by doing it, not by thinking or studying. Also, the kind of actor that I think I am - I learned about theater doing theater, not studying theater. I think that traditional school can be great, but also it can stifle original thought.

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.

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.

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

I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.

The best education in film is to make one

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing 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.

Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book

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

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

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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