Anthony de Mello Quotes

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

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

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

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Always make new mistakes.

Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

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.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

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

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

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

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

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

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.

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes