Nick Kroll Quotes

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

You learn more from your setbacks than from your successes.

When you're first starting a show, any show, you learn what works and what doesn't work, and it's a kind of trial and error thing.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

As we get older... I don't know a single person who has devoted their life to musical theatre who hasn't had a couple of misses as well as a bunch of hits. The misses, we learn a great deal from them.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

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.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.