Sarah Silverman Quotes

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Always make new mistakes.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I'd love to try comedy, which I've never actually done. I could fail miserably at it, but I'd have fun working it out.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

When you do something that people respond to, and then you start altering the blueprint for what worked, it's pretty fear-inducing. But sometimes, you have to do that, in order to push the boundaries.

You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day. But the thing with improvisation is that 90% of what you come up with won't be used and for good reason. But you keep going for the occasional gem that you might come up with. You do a scene and a lot of the time. We wouldn't cut. So, you come up with something that might be funny and then you go, 'alright, what else'? So, you kind of throw stuff against the wall and see what happens. But you've got to be prepared to make a fool of yourself.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.