Bela Fleck Quotes

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

In TV, I did scripts that were not well-written, and I learned how to make bad material okay. That's a hard thing to do; you can learn bad habits, but you can also learn to find something in anything.

Just because you've made a mistake... everybody makes mistakes. It's how you come out of it.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

You correct the mistakes, and you move on.

Failure is easy to handle because once you fail, the options are very simple... like, 'Try something different,' or, 'Maybe if you do the same thing, do it in a different way.'

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

For me, when I make a mistake on the field, it hurts. I usually don't forget it until the same situation comes up and I make it right.

When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because at first you think, "I won't have any shelter! What am I gonna do? The sun is hot. Very thirsty."

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

The genius is making a way out of no way.

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness .

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.