A Quote by Ryan Holiday

If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.

Ryan Holiday

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Ryan Holiday
American - Author
Born: June 16, 1987

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

I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop.

Robert Kiyosaki

Almost everything I've learned about journalism has been from other friends who are journalists, taking advantage of the money I hope they don't think they threw away at j-school. I studied comparative literature, but the professional vagaries of journalism I've learned through other people's trial and error, and my own.

Melissa Gira Grant

I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.

Charlie Murphy

The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can't talk about that.

Frank Zappa

Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.

Alexandra Fuller

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

I always talk to all the crew. I always make it pleasant. I always nurture a relationship that makes people feel like they're important, like they're a part of the collaboration. I feel that way about the young actors on set. I don't talk to them like I'm the mentor; I talk to them like they're my peers. And I learned that from Meryl Streep.

Viola Davis

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

Gordon Moore

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

Paul Halmos

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

John Green

Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

Scott D. Anthony

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

Kevin Allen

I never learned from a real trainer so it was trial and error. Mostly error.

Bob Baffert

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

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

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