Quotes About Experimentation

R]emain open to not knowing, perhaps allowing yourself to come to the point of admitting, I don't know, and then experimenting with relaxing a bit into this not knowing instead of condemning yourself for it. After all, in this moment, it may be an accurate statement of how things are for you.

If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

This is not your father's marketing. Instead of "do it right no matter what", search marketing demands that you "do it wrong quickly and then fix it".

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

If you fail it doesn't mean you are stupid, but it means you are clever enough to discover things that won't work.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

Thus prepared, I was able to proceed to new experiments on my own account. This is not the place for a report of these experiments, and I will only note that at this time I attempted an original method for the teaching of reading and writing, a part of the education of the child which was most imperfectly treated in the works of both Itard and Séguin.

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

You don't know all that you can be unless you've tried all there is to try. None of us get to do that in this life, so hence the saying, there's always room for improvement.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

The total freedom means that you're enjoying what you're doing and you're involved in what you're doing, and that gives you the opportunity to experiment and have fun.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.