Walt Disney Quotes

All progress is experimental.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

I'm still experimenting.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

Everything is an experiment.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

There is no knowledge without risk taking.

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?