David Copperfield Quotes

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.

What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

Everything is an experiment.

With innovation, there is always risk.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

Education is our passport to the future.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.