Stefan Sagmeister Quotes

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

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

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

Better to try and fail than not to try at all

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

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

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.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

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

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I think it's so exciting to try anything you possibly can.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

I don’t care about risk, honestly. The riskiest thing to do is not to act. I would far rather try and fail than fail not trying.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

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.

Many people don't even want to start something until they feel fairly confident that they will be a success at it. But me? I love to throw myself into things headfirst and fail all over the place.

The greatest tip ever told to me is 'Don't be afraid to make mistakes.'

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.