"Do not be too timid and squeamish..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”
“When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.”
“Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.”
More on Life
“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”
“If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.”
“Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.”
More on Experimentation
“I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.”
“Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours”
“But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.”