Simone Giertz Quotes

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

In some ways, it's good for company culture to build things that are intended to fail because it creates an environment where it's OK to fail. A lot of people are very scared of that, especially in the workplace.

Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying.

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

I can't live my life under the sort of "I cannot fail" philosophy, because then every time I do fail, which feels more inevitable than me being perfect all the time, it's going to be soul crushing. And more importantly, I'll never take any risks.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day. But the thing with improvisation is that 90% of what you come up with won't be used and for good reason. But you keep going for the occasional gem that you might come up with. You do a scene and a lot of the time. We wouldn't cut. So, you come up with something that might be funny and then you go, 'alright, what else'? So, you kind of throw stuff against the wall and see what happens. But you've got to be prepared to make a fool of yourself.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.