Edward Hirsch Quotes

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

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

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

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

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.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

I don't know what the sound is or the song is until I've spent a lot of time on it. I'm always chipping away at it, rethinking it.

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

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.

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

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

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.