Edwin Land Quotes

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

I'm willing to fail, my producers are willing to fail, my crew is willing to fail.

Enrique Muricano isn't afraid to try something new, to take risks, to possibly fail, and in turn, set himself apart.

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

Creating content and never being afraid to try something new have been my two hallmarks.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.