Quotes About Failure

I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to anybody because I get low.

Atari is a very sad story.

'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.

You're not failed parents because you didn't meet every agenda on your child's schedule.

As a striker sometimes you miss, and sometimes you score.

If you have a bad story on your hands, you have a bad story on your hands, and no amount of score re-working is gonna save that.

I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'

When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.

I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.