Raymond E. Feist Quotes

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

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.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.

In tech, you create the foundation; even sometimes if it doesn't work, you take that same developmental idea, and you use it to apply to a different area.

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

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

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

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

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

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.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.