Sydney J. Harris Quotes

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.

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.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

Risk is the willingness to fail.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

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

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.