Mistakes!

I thought of putting together some ‘great’ quotations from ‘great’ designers about creating ‘great’ things. Instead I found this one about mistakes.  So, as we all make ’em, I thought I’d look for some more which relate to the design world. I also found some interesting people, some I knew of and some I didn’t.  Here goes:

‘To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas’. Leo Burnett

‘For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes.’ Dree Hemingway

‘There’s a way of playing safe, there’s a way of using tricks and there’s the way I like to play which is dangerously where you’re going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven’t created before’. Dave Brubeck. Want to listen to Take Five again?

‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Design is knowing which ones to keep’.  Scott Adams

‘People think that computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.’ (!) Adam Osborne

‘Never fear being vulgar, just boring’.  Diana Vreeland. She was definitely not afraid of making mistakes!

‘Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not give a damn’.  Gore Vidal. Nor him

‘Ordinary is pointless’ (seen on a G¨u yoghourt pot)

So, what do you say? Learning can be painful sometimes but ‘If you never risk going too far, you will never know how far you can go’. T S Eliot.