William Bateson Quotes

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

I'm not just a scientist.

When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.

I believe in creative work.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.