Quotes About Trial

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.

We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie.

And the fundamental point of all these massively parallel experiments is the same: when a problem reaches a certain level of complexity, formal theory won't get you nearly as far as an incredibly rapid, systematic process of trial and error.

Was Anaxagoras an atheist? There is nothing anachronistic about this question. In the late 430s, he was put on trial for "impiety," on the grounds that he denied the divinity of the heavenly bodies (which he undoubtedly did). This may have been the first time in history that an individual was prosecuted for heretical religious beliefs.

Steve offered to pay his victim a month's salary if she would write a statement saying he had not attacked her. She refused. But because she was engaged and worried about what her fiancé would think if she had to go through a trial with a man who would try to destroy her, she backed off. The case disappeared.

there has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.

To become "successful," you have to say "yes" to a lot of experiments. To learn what you're best at, or what you're most passionate about, you have to throw a lot against the wall.

Occasionally, a good idea comes to you first, if you're lucky. Usually, it only comes after a lot of bad ideas.

So the goal isn't to get good ideas; the goal is to get bad ideas. Because once you get enough bad ideas, then some good ones have to show up.

Throw it all up on the wall and see what sticks.

A year and a day of study and spiritual practice offers students the chance to move at this natural pace in their learning. It gives them the opportunity to learn, just as the ancients did, through personal experience, trial and error—which are all guided by the experienced hand of a trained elder.

the anger we reveal in the middle of trial says more about us than it does about the trial.

Along with that, the Bible continually reminds us that God sends the uncomfortable grace of trial not to crush or discourage us, but to mature and refine us. As we are realistic about difficulty, that needs to be our hope.

The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.

Existen venenos tan sutiles que para conocer sus propiedades hay que probarlos. Existen enfermedades tan extrañas que uno tiene que sufrirlas para comprender su esencia

Never any young adventurer's misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine.

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)

Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!