“Take chances! Get messy! Make mistakes!”

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”

“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

“Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.”

“If things weren't messy, or getting messy, there would be no discontent, and you wouldn't need productive thinking in the first place.”

“An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.”

“Getting out was a bit like making your way through a jungle: if you know the way and all the hazards that lie before you the chances of getting through are good; if you know nothing the tendency is to take chances based on intuition, with unknown results.”

“Stay in the middle,
don't get pushed to the side,
every chance that's worth taking,
is a chance worth the fight”

“I've got to take this chance and make it into something good.”

“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”