Trial And Error Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Cutting, Errors, Self

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• 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

  Children, Errors, Skills

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• Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

  Nick Bostrom

  Opportunity, Errors, Risk

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• Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

  Kevin Allen

  Errors, Risk, Survival

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• We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

  William Deresiewicz

  Errors, Doubt, Trials

  William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

  Joan Robinson

  Science, Errors, Progress

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

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• Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

  Don King

  Struggle, Reality, Errors

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• I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact
  I work only under duress.

  Edward Abbey

  Errors, Trials, Duress

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would be "make an error and go to trial." Einstein did not arrive at E=mc2 in his first attempt. If he were working in the state of Virginia under Cuccinelli today, he could be jailed for his initial mistakes and perhaps never achieve that landmark equation.

  Scott Mandia

  Mistake, Roots, Errors

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• Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

  Levon Helm

  Song, Errors, Play

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• Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Math, Errors, America

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.171, Random House

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• I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

  David Arquette

  Errors, Trying, Trials

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breakup, Reality, Love Is

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• Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't be afraid to dig, the most important people/musicians in my life always have. If you do decide to dig, don't always expect to come up with a clean face. It's o.k. The most important lessons to me have been learned by trial and error. All I'm trying to say is "try to find yourself," as I have.

  Allan Holdsworth

  Men, Errors, People

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• In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.

  David Brin

  Errors, Law, Tools

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• There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Errors, Experience

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• 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

  Jobs, Business, Fire

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• I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is an acting role within itself...I've gone through a lot of trial and error to find what works and what doesn't. With that comes an understanding of how to offer the same opportunities to other artists. ... In my opinion the world is in need of real soul music. ... I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace. ... I'm a younger Morgan Freeman. ... I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

  Usher

  Real, Opportunity, Artist

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• The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Inability, Trials

  "Cosmos".

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• I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error. It was scary and exciting at first you don't know what to expect. But once you look into your child's eyes, you forget about that.

  Michael Jordan

  Children, Book, Eye

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• I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.

  Esther Dyson

  Baby, Mistake, Believe

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• signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Errors, Trials, Language

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• What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Animal, Errors

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• All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

  Brennan Manning

  Errors, Trials, Silliness

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.39, David C Cook

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• To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.

  Frances Gray Patton

  Character, Errors, Steps

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