Hillary Clinton Quotes

The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.

Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

I have always believed in the marketplace of ideas.

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

People should debate. They shouldn't be afraid to talk. You should listen to what other people think and how they make decisions. There should be an exchange of ideas and opinions because that's how we learn.

I don't mind people writing about me. Personal attacks are different, but political arguments? I'm putting myself out there on a daily basis. I'm giving my opinion. So it only makes sense that others might differ and will criticize me.

As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

We cannot be so scared that our ideas or opinions will not survive being tested. If you are afraid of being wrong, then you might not have a good argument.

Build something, make something, test something, sell something. Learn for yourself if your idea is a good one.

If you're going to have an exchange of ideas, the only thing you can do is to meet people face-to-face in front of a crowd who may think differently than you do. I mean, that's what democracy is about, isn't it?

You really have to think a lot before speaking, and the things that are written about you, sometimes you might not like it.

Everything is a test.

Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don't like it, study it and figure out why you don't like it. You'll learn from your mistake.

The audience is never wrong.

I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

Test everything, including assumptions

Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.