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Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye. -- Michael Josephson
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar. -- Daisy Berkowitz
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar. -- Daisy Berkowitz
Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol! -- Gloria Gaynor
I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere. -- Orson Welles
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day. -- Anita Diament
Experimenting with make-up is a lot of fun. When I'm not touring, I like nothing better than inviting the girls around to listen to music and get ready together before going out. -- Eliza Doolittle
Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics. -- Jasmine Guinness
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. -- Ivan Pavlov
I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that. -- Jordyn Wieber
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music. -- Nicki Minaj
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. -- Anne Sullivan
It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality. -- Emma Watson
I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages. -- Rooney Mara
Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles. -- Zooey Deschanel
As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with. -- Reggie Watts
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. -- Ignazio Silone
When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.' -- Trent Reznor
Dressing up and doing photo shoots was a side of the industry I really didn't think I would like. But now I've got a glam squad; I love trying on new outfits and experimenting with different looks. -- Ella Henderson
Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the amount of sodium, people want sugar and fat instead. -- Michael Moss
I started experimenting with jewelry in my 20s - I was playing around with gemstones and painting things in gold leaf, and it turned into this huge obsession for me, so I launched my first jewelry line, Jade Inc. -- Jade Jagger
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. -- Ray Bradbury
I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative. -- Marco Brambilla
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again. -- Kiran Desai
Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity. -- Stephen Chbosky
I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes. -- Cat Cora
Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled. -- Paul Hawken
When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence. -- Damien Rice
For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm. -- Marlo Thomas
I spent a long time experimenting, saying, 'Here's a record that's free, or $5 if you want a nice version or $250 if you'd like a really nice coffee-table thing.' Everything felt like the right thing to do at the time and then six months later would feel tired. And I would feel tired. So that's one reason for returning to a major label. -- Trent Reznor
The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up. -- Florence Welch
I'm still experimenting. -- Stevie Wonder
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism. -- Bradford Cox
Play is experimenting with chance. -- Novalis
I always loved experimenting in film. -- Isabella Rossellini
I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting. -- John Legend
Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things. -- Leslie Mann
I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs. -- Richard Bacon
I cook a lot. I'm always experimenting. I'm not much of a recipe follower. -- Erika Christensen
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us. -- Julia Cameron
I'm always experimenting and trying different things. That's what keeps it fun and encourages growth. -- Charles Soule
I enjoy experimenting and trying new beauty products. It is fun to try new looks! -- Miranda Kerr
The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with. -- Reggie Watts
I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting. -- Zooey Deschanel
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity. -- William Stanley Jevons
I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting. -- Ed Sheeran
It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. -- PJ Harvey
I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things. -- Nigel Godrich
I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books. -- Diane Mott Davidson
How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers! -- Sterling W Sill
My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery. -- William Dobell
I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language. -- John Scott
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. -- Anne Sullivan
You have to be more discerning, Lily, when experimenting with bondage." He wiggled his eyebrows. "I'd make a great master. -- Christine Feehan
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music. -- Paul Weller
If you see me playing a $1/$2 no-limit on PokerStars, I'm probably experimenting with something, trying something new seeing how it works. -- Chris Moneymaker
A cook's job in my opinion is to be creative and push the boundaries of their cuisine and never stop experimenting. -- Ching He Huang
It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan. -- Glenn Frey
Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano. -- Isabelle Fuhrman
Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office! -- Steve Jobs
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. -- Joni Mitchell
There are endless ways to enhance beauty. You never know when you will find your perfect lipstick - unless you keep experimenting. -- Pat McGrath
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. -- Thomas Friedman
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. -- Herbert Otto Gille
At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out. -- Dallas Campbell
A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it. -- John Spiers
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. -- Christy Turlington
Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right. -- Jack Canfield
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. -- Mort Walker
The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it. -- John C. Maxwell
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment. -- Edgard Varese
I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course. -- Paul Lansky
I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing. -- Tim Roth
You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak- that I think about it all day long- that I like experimenting- studying- reflecting. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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
An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time. -- Seth Godin
I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record. -- Mariah Carey
I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to. -- Barack Obama
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting. -- Harmony Korine
My dentist is actually a highly technical specialist, constantly experimenting with the latest dental research. The equipment he has makes my old dentist look prehistoric. -- Joelle Carter
I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages -- Rooney Mara
Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary. -- Beck
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage.. ..I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art. -- Jasper Johns
In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy? -- Esther Duflo
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble. -- Thomas A. Edison
As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child. -- Albert Shanker
But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting. -- Jojo Moyes
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. -- Malcolm Turnbull
I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup. -- Caitlin Moran
I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde! -- Leighton Meester
Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with... something about yourself, your career, your spouse -- Dale Dauten
Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge. -- David Crane
Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual. -- Vimala Thakar
You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity. -- Chick Corea
On this life you will act like a scientist,you need to keep experimenting and do some mistakes, but in the end you will find out how to make things so perfect ... -- arold pablo
... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting. -- Brian Kernighan
I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting. -- Justin Townes Earle
Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you'll be able to count the grass blades on the Superbowl field, an obvious lifestyle improvement. -- Seth Shostak
Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else. -- Ronald Reagan
I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity. -- Louise Nurding
I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting. -- Elle Fanning
If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies. -- Abraham Maslow
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms. -- Thomas A. Edison
I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things. -- Bat for Lashes
This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting. -- Richard Bach
Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it. -- Constantinos C. Markides
Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages. -- Todd Park

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