Cormac McCarthy Quotes

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

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

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

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

The only way you improve is to try new things.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

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

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

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

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

You can read books on stuff all day long, but until you get out there and just do it, if you want to start playing, and you want to make some music, then go out and play. Go find yourself a venue and play, even if it's in your home. Just play every day. You win the fight by fighting.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

… embrace new ideas with energy!

I always feel like I have to keep going. You can sit back and say, 'Maybe I can stop.' But then you're yesterday, and I love tomorrow.

I believe one is not going to get anywhere by sitting and planning too much. The point is to keep doing, and what will happen will happen.

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.