Robert H. Goddard Quotes

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

In tech, you create the foundation; even sometimes if it doesn't work, you take that same developmental idea, and you use it to apply to a different area.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?

Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Do it. Try it. Fix it.

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

Do it, fix it, try it.

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset.

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.