Bobby Kotick Quotes

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

In some ways, it's good for company culture to build things that are intended to fail because it creates an environment where it's OK to fail. A lot of people are very scared of that, especially in the workplace.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

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

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.

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

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

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