Merce Cunningham Quotes

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

I like to keep experimenting - singing, dancing, acting. I want to learn an instrument, dive. I want to do everything. I will keep pushing myself into as many things as I can.

I love any project where I get to push myself and learn new things.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

I always like being able to do something I haven't done before.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I want to challenge myself, challenge my styles.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.