Merle Dandridge Quotes

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

It doesn't ever hurt to try different stuff.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.

I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persistence to perfection.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

I like taking risks. I like trying new things, whether it be style or restaurants or whatever.

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

I think some people get just locked into 'this is the way it has to be,' and they're afraid of messing something up. I don't ever want to be that way with shooting or with anything, really - not just shooting.

I'm open to trying multiple different types of styles.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

It's great to just keep going and throw new stuff out there.

As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.

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

I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning. It's a propensity for action - and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.

I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something new.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.