Joel Salatin Quotes

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.

No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have tried it.

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.

I value not being good at things, because children are not good at things.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the movies for 15 years before I did 'Paranormal Activity,' so I was lucky enough to have that experience. So instead of trying to make, like, 'Godzilla' after 'Paranormal Activity,' I said, 'Let's keep making inexpensive movies.'

It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.