Atul Gawande Quotes

The only way you improve is to try new things.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.

I'm always experimenting and trying different things. That's what keeps it fun and encourages growth.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

All progress is experimental.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

I want to keep experimenting and trying to change my game.

If you don't try out new things, then you will be left behind.

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

You're always trying to get better. You're always tinkering. You're always learning new things.

I've stopped making frocks, but not making discoveries.

Don't be afraid to try something new.

I'm ever-changing and always evolving, always trying new things.

One of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.