Kenneth Edmonds Quotes

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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

The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

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

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

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.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.