Richard Russo Quotes

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

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

If a door is shut, go up and wiggle it a little - don't assume it's locked.

We have the right to go and try new things and, if those things don't work, go back to what we were doing at first.

Let's just start and see what happens.

If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

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.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.