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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
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
All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories. -- Michael Schur
Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
I did it the stupid way, through trial and error. -- Jake Roberts
Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process. -- James Redfield
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work. -- Cheryl Strayed
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error. -- Keith Henson
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
Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing. -- Philip Treacy
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
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
The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don't know how to use it, so it's kind of trial and error. -- Jay Ryan
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
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
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
I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system. -- Edgar Mitchell
The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process. -- Robyn Davidson
Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error. -- Gordon Moore
The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error. -- Geoff Dyer
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. -- Colin Powell
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors. -- Virginia Postrel
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. -- William Deresiewicz
Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error. -- Kevin Allen
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning. -- Andy Rooney
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. -- Jane Jacobs
In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility -- Master Jin Kwon
Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error. -- Karl Donitz
All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness. -- Brennan Manning
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a clichÃ© ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. -- Paul Halmos
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress. -- Joan Robinson
I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress. -- Edward Abbey
In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go. -- Julia Stiles
You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. -- Tim Harford
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. -- Wallace Stegner
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
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
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
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
Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed. -- Paul Russo
So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again. -- Edward Hirsch
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
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.) -- Carl Sagan
There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error. -- Thomas Bangalter
When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again. -- Emilia Fox
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
Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover through a trial and error process that you will have more energy. -- Frederick Lenz
Potatoes are popped, with no oil, using the same technology used in the rice cake manufacturing business. It took a lot of trial and error and lots of practice, though, to get the right flavor. -- Keith Belling
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
I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having good people around me all the time, and they have given me the right advice for my body. -- Tony McCoy
I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios. -- Mayer Hawthorne
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
Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try." -- David Levithan
I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That's how I started to find the voice of Freddy. -- Robert Englund
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
I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away. -- Nick Jonas
I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far. -- Priyanka Chopra
All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark. -- Rose George
When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life. -- Rivers Cuomo
In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people. -- Jim Goldberg
In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people." -- Jim Goldberg
The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing. -- Susan Cheever
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
After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt. -- Suzanne Somers
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error. -- Margaret Atwood
Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out. -- Tim Harford
A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing. -- Adam Sadowsky
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. -- Herbert Hoover
Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought. -- Charles K. Kao
Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties. -- Paul Stamets
Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn. -- Chris Evans
Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation. -- Scott D. Anthony
The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system. -- Edgar Mitchell
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Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems. -- Leon Brown
You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well. -- Scott D. Anthony
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
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. -- William Whewell
Perfection does not mean errorless . Real perfection starts with real intention and ends with delivery, all driven by seeking knowledge, trial & error and investing emotions. Whatever delivered after that is perfect . -- Sameh Elsayed

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