Search for a better, cheaper, more efficient method based on technology; use trial and error to identify what works, and then find the best people to implement the plan of action. — Jared Kushner
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. — Sigmund Freud
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. — Fred Astaire
Testing a product is a learning process — Brian Marick
Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error. — Karl Donitz
Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled. — William Ramsay
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. — Teri Garr
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. — James A. Froude
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward — Thomas A. Edison
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. — Alexis Carrel
It just takes experience. Years of practice—trial and error—and you learn. — Bernard Arnault
Life is but an endless series of experiments. — Mahatma Gandhi
Success is normally found in a pile of mistakes. — Tim Fargo
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. — W. Clement Stone
The more tests we ran, the more we learned, and the more we succeeded. — Cliff Lerner
You have to adjust until you find product-market fit. — Naval Ravikant
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. — Hugh Walpole
Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust. — Craig Groeschel
One fails forward toward success. — Charles Kettering
Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe. — Tony Evans
Trial And Error Image Quotes
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Try And Error Quotes
When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album. — John Fogerty
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. — Robert Southwell
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. — Charles De Gaulle
An error does not become a mistake, until you refuse to correct it.
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort — Gene Kranz
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
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. — James Allen
From the errors of others the wise correct their own.
I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection. — Jesse Jackson, Jr.
I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying. — Phil Jackson
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. — Sara Bonnett Stein
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do. — Elon Musk
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell
Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends. — Bob Ross
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
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs
Anyone can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in their error.
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
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment. — Og Mandino
Take comfort: no one actually knows what the hell they're doing. Everyone is just working off their current best guess. — Mark Manson
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. — Terry Pratchett
Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day. — Bruce Mau
The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it. — Karl Popper
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance. — Sister Souljah
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
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress. — Joan Robinson
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character. — William Westmoreland
Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
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
Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target. — Denis Waitley
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems. — Leon Brown
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. — Dag Hammarskjold
I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way. — Mishka
I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error. — George Rodger
The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage. — Pipilotti Rist
Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error. — Gordon Moore
I learned to cook by watching and helping my mother in the kitchen. I also learned by trial and error. Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food! — Nina Dobrev
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes. — Ronald Wright
Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought. — Charles K. Kao
The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system. — Edgar Mitchell
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school. — George Cukor
Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error. — Goenawan Mohamad
Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to discover through trial and error which strategies work and which do not, and later to reflect consciously on what they have learned. — Zick Rubin
Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless vacillating. If you're afraid to make decisions and act on them in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty, get a job. Failure's lessons are essential to success. — Steve Pavlina
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. — Suzanne Farrell
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. — Tony Snow
I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it. — April Bloomfield
The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with
more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system. — Richard P. Feynman
Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want. — Jessica Livingston
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