Quotes About Self-taught

Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.'

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

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

Leonardo da Vinci liked to boast that, because he was not formally educated, he had to learn from his own experiences instead

Other than a little training in commercial math at what was known as an "abacus school," Leonardo was mainly self-taught. He often seemed defensive about being an "unlettered man," as he dubbed himself with some irony. But he also took pride that his lack of formal schooling led him to be a disciple of experience and experiment.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

As for the learning itself, I figured you didn't need a college degree to become on of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself.

I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.

I am your original autodidact.