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.
“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“Do not be afraid to fail exams, be afraid to always be a witness to other students success.”
Success
Source: https://www.yourquote.in/ahmed-omaar-crc7k/quotes
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
Bk. 7, ch. 1
Corinne (1807)
http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility
“If you're afraid to fail in a startup, you're destined to do so.”
Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 33.
“I was afraid I’d fail. So I didn’t work.”
Brothers and Sisters (p. 93; first published in The Little Magazine (1976) Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
On Kate Bush
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. And, you know, I think her courage, which is the positive way of interpreting it, or bloody-mindedness, which is the negative, is part of what gives her real value as an artist.
Yves Klein, catalogue of exhibition in the Jewish Museum, New York 1967, p. 18
from posthumous publications
