Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
- Topic: Innovation, Mistakes, Quality
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible. The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.
The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.
