Bob Ross Quotes

You don't have to get it right the first time.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.

Failure is success training.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

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 don't get everything right the first time.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

Everything that I do should be wrong, but I started really young, and I just learned how to learn. I would fail, and I would figure out why that didn't go right and do it again.

It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.