J. Maarten Troost Quotes

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

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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

I don't think there's any substitute for experience.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

We cannot learn men from books.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Experience is a great teacher.