Robert Lepage Quotes

I've blundered my way through life.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

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.

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.

The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.

Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn't make you a bad pastry chef - that makes you human.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

I don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I'm learning it by trial and error, which is something that's slow going.

I've spent my life making blunders.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

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

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.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.