Ted Engstrom Quotes

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

That's the purpose of creative stuff: when you really love what you do, you have to know at some point, or points, you're not going to be good at it. That's just the process of learning. I can edit it and try to be as perfect as I can, but I'm still going to have my vulnerable spots and my weaknesses.

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

If someone is better than you at something, then it's likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it's likely because he hasn't been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.

Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.

Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.

I'm an extreme do'er - I'm not an intellect; I'm not a bookworm. I do, do, do, and nine times out of ten, I fail, but I learn from that.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.

Every master was once a disaster.

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.