Jordan Peterson Quotes

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

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

I just like to experiment.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the voyage of discovery that fascinates me.

I'm just trying to experiment with a lot of different stuff and see what comes out of it.

It's not just exciting to build things but to explore new fields and to recognize what comes with that is a lot of uncertainty.

All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?