Tim Story Quotes

I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

The idea behind the Anti Tour was people asking me how I would top the 'Aphrodite' tour... I thought the best option was to go completely the other way. I always tried to be that way - sometimes it works and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

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

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

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

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.

Sometimes you write songs that don't all fit together. What do you, just throw them away? This might be a chance for growth and learning. It could be a horrible fall-on-your-face kind of experiment.

Because such a massive part of stand-up is trying and failing first, I'm not putting as much pressure on. Just going out and doing it is enough.

You put some things out there. Some work, some don't, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one.

When you have your own business, you don't mind failing if it makes you better in the long run.