Learning Through Practice Quotes

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

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

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 have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.

We learn to do by doing.

When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.