Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persistence to perfection.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.

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

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!

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

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.