Bridget Riley Quotes

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

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

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

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.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.

Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

Always make new mistakes.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.