Michael Bastian Quotes

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

With innovation, there is always risk.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

If you are not frightened, you are not original.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.