Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.

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

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

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

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

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

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

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

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

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.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.