Samuel Smiles Quotes

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

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.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

I view myself as an experimentalist. I've tried everything in the book, and I have replicated results to one extent or another.

The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.

It's very important to put children in an environment where they can take things apart; where they can break things and then learn to fix them; where they can trust their hands and know their capacity to manipulate objects.

Sometimes, we find what we want by also finding out what you don't want. All of that is trial and error. Once you're in that pit, the trial and error is important. It's up to us; we've got to keep moving forward.

I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

When you're first starting a show, any show, you learn what works and what doesn't work, and it's a kind of trial and error thing.

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.