A Quote by Viola Spolin

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

Viola Spolin

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Anyone Anything Experience Experiencing Learn Teaches Through

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Viola Spolin
American - Writer
November 7, 1906 - November 22, 1994

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.

Viola Spolin

I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view.

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The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.

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Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

Wynton Marsalis

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

George Cukor

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

Caterina Fake

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.

Benjamin Franklin

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

Bette Greene

Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.

Marguerite Duras

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

Karl Liebknecht

Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.

Will Ferrell

You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.