James Redfield Quotes

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.

Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

When you're first starting a show, any show, you learn what works and what doesn't work, and it's a kind of trial and error thing.

I like explication of ideas, even if I'm wrong or even if it's a struggle or if it's a work in progress.

I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.