Hugh Prather Quotes

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

The only way you improve is to try new things.

If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.

If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have tried it.

I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.

If you don't try out new things, then you will be left behind.