DanTDM Quotes

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.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.

I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard and do a lot of listening and trial-and-error.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

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.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

I'm figuring it out as I go, I'm good at that.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

Success is a poor teacher

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.