William Gibson Quotes

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

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

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

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

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

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.

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

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

With innovation, there is always risk.

You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.

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 think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

The child in me wanted to try out new things and do something different.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

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

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.