Nick Nurse Quotes

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

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

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

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also what might later on be a mistake.

Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

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

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.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

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

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persistence to perfection.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

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.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.