Jamie Hyneman Quotes

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

Error is the price we pay for progress.

I love my mistakes. That's how you learn! You have to keep making mistakes. That's how you expand!

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

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.

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

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.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

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

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

The exciting part about life is finding out what you can't do, because you don't find out until you try to do something and you're stopped.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

In all pioneer movements, they underwent a period of experimentation in which mistakes were made which, eventually, according to their proponents, might have led to valuable findings and encouraging results …

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

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.

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

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

You make mistakes and you learn from them.

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.