practical demonstration Quotes

Win through your actions, never through argument.

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.

Don't tell me you can pitch...pitch. Don't tell me you can sell...sell.

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

By far the best proof is experience.

Example is better than following it.

Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

Teach by works more than words.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

There is only one proof of ability - action.

I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!

In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his favorite notions of personal hygiene. Everybody knew that his class was liable to degenerate into a demonstration of some practical points about rowing, with Buggy sitting on the table and showing us how to pull an oar.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

I think the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".

Example is more powerful than precept.