Susan Stewart Quotes

It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

Everything is an experiment.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

I start off but I don't know where I'm going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

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.

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

All life is an experiment.

If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

I just think that life is a constant experiment.

The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.