Stevie Wonder Quotes

All progress is experimental.

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.

In all pioneer movements, they underwent a period of experimentation in which mistakes were made which, eventually, according to their proponents, might have led to valuable findings and encouraging results …

I love my mistakes. That's how you learn! You have to keep making mistakes. That's how you expand!

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

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.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

Youth is wholly experimental.