George Eliot Quotes

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Our movement has accomplished nothing—anywhere.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.

I feel like I've improved at everything I've done every single year - except golf. Golf, I've managed to stay exactly the same.

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

I don't like feeling stuck, like I'm not going anywhere.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

I just see things that are so poorly run, and they could be done a lot better. It might come down to, 'if you want something done right, do it yourself.'

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

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

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

You just can't get anything done. You can't get hearings, you can't get legislation, you can't get responses by the regulatory agencies - you can't get anything done. I'm a realist. I don't work harder and harder to get less and less.

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)