“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.”
Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
As quoted in "A Genius and His Magic Camera" in LIFE magazine (27 October 1972); also in The Instant Image : Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience (1978) by Mark Olshaker, p. 65
Variant: An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Context: An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.
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