Bill Budge Quotes

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

Many people who excel are self-taught.