Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

If you sit there and have that mentality of 'triple down on what you're good at,' you're never going to grow. You're always going to stay the same.

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

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

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

If you think you've stopped learning, you're going to get lapped.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

When you are through changing, you are through.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.