Art Blakey Quotes

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

We used to write this down by saying, 'move fast and break things.' And the idea was, unless you are breaking some stuff you are not moving fast enough. I think there's probably something in that for other entrepreneurs to learn which is that making mistakes is okay. At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes.

If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.

I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.

You can't live in fear of preventing mistakes.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.