Daniel Boulud Quotes

Don't be afraid. There is no right answer in fashion.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

The truth is, I've got a naturally outgoing nature, and I still have a great love for experimentation.

I believe that 20-somethings would be more likely to embrace experimentation - and provide additional value - if they felt safe to do so.

I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

When I have the ball at my feet, I'm in different world.

I do like trying bold things such as styling, even usually.

I like to be bold and different and to go and try things.

There's a lot of songs and songwriters out there - you have to make something stand out to pitch songs. Sometimes you have to be bold and just try something different. And just stick with it - don't give up if nothing happens.

As a youngster, that's how it was: you tried to express yourself out on the pitch as much as you can. Maybe I stopped trying things when I got into the first team, but now I'm more comfortable and doing things off the cuff again.

I dreamed of recording a guitar album since I started playing, but I just never felt ready. I never felt like I was the player that I wanted to be. But I had this epiphany: you're never going to feel ready.

If you have a good movie in hand and it is successful, you gain confidence to experiment.

The greatest tip ever told to me is 'Don't be afraid to make mistakes.'

Most writer's blocks come from people second-guessing to the point where they get discouraged, and they just quit. For me, if I write something and it's not amazing, I don't care because even if I feel like it might not be amazing, it could still be a number-one hit.

If you're all confidence, you never evolve or take risks. You're just stagnating in your artistry, whatever you're doing.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

I found my voice when I started doing YouTube videos, and that's when I was pretty old, to be honest. I think it's about exploration. I think it's about trying new things, meeting new people, and also, it's about borrowing inspiration from other people. Because I still have those moments where I'm like, "Oh my God, I'm a loser, what am I doing?"

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.