Winston Churchill Quotes

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

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.

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

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

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.

No one is too young to do the right thing.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

Not every pass-rush move is going to work to perfection, so therefore, you've got to figure out what's best for you.

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.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

Even though I'm young, I really try to do the right thing.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.

I kind of had to figure stuff out on my own and get myself snowboarding competitively again. I went through all types of different legs to try to learn which were going to work for me. Luckily, I was able to figure it out.

It is about the American people. When something is not ready, it is not working, it is not right, then we owe it to them to do the right thing and say, 'Let's hold.'

It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

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

America can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

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.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.