Lake Bell Quotes

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

You learn more doing than doing training.

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

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

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.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

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

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

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

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

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

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

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

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

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

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.