Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Everything is an experiment.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

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.

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.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.