Alan Arkin Quotes

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

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.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

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.

Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

Better to try and fail than not to try at all

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything.

You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

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

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

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.