Stefan Zweig Quotes

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

Some of my best songwriting choices started as mistakes or learning curves, when I accidentally hit a 'wrong' key or something. I try not to lose that the more I learn the how's and why's of piano.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

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

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.