Trial And Error Quotes

• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

  Bruce Barton

  Change, Fear, Errors

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

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Errors, Fearless, Trials

  "Young Millionaire: Inside the Mind of Yahoo's Teen Sensation Nick D'Aloisio". Interview with Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.entrepreneur.com. March 24, 2014.

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• I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

  "Experiment and Theory in Physics" by Max Born, (p. 44), 1943.

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• Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Wise, Baseball

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• Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Errors, Trials

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• Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Failure, Pride, Errors

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• Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Science, Errors

  "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

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• Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Errors, Ideas, Trials

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Errors, Trials

  "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

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• Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

  Martin Gore

  Errors, Mind, Trials

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• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Science, Errors

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

  Virginia Postrel

  Errors, Progress, Trials

  Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

  Tim Harford

  Successful, Errors, Trials

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• There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, "Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works."

  Anita Roddick

  Crazy, Believe, Journey

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• Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, all these things shall be for our experience, and our good.

  Robert D. Hales

  God, Jesus, Father

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• The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.

  Clayton Christensen

  Real, Errors, People

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

  Tim Harford

  Struggle, Mean, Errors

  Tim Harford (2011). “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

  Joshua Mohr

  Errors, Poison, Trials

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

  Charles K. Kao

  Errors, Ideas, Trials

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• Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Mistake, Errors

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Intuition”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Believe, Fall

  Amby Burfoot (2009). “Runner's World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Run for Weight Loss, Fitness, and Competition”, p.176, Rodale

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• If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

  Mary Ruefle

  Errors, Ideas, Path

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• Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.

  Megan Crane

  Mistake, Wings, Errors

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• Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Errors, Information

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• Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

  Peter M. Brant

  Art, Errors, Succeed

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