Quotes About Failure

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

There are programs that don't work.

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

I am constantly hungry for growth and that's what drives me. Success or failure of a project doesn't drive me.

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

UFC has failed to market and promote me appropriately.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

Every time I do a dance track it's like I'll get a heart attack, because it depends heavily on the video, the hook line, the stars and the promotion. Any of these factors fail, the song fails.

I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning. It's a propensity for action - and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.

A lot of my friends who were bigger than me at school got into academies at professional clubs but none are pros now. And none of them has put on an England shirt.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.

You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.