Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Virgil Thomson, (Nov 25 1896-1989), US composer, conductor, music critic; His forward-looking ideas stimulated new lines of thought among contemporary musicians.