Quotes About Failure

Failure is part and parcel of the process of experimenting with roles and films.

Hits and flops are part and parcel of movie business.

Life is like a circle and you have to know when to move on. Success and failure are a part and parcel of it.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

When I composed a song on Bhagat Singh, it flopped. But my other songs about partying and all that are superhits!

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

Sometimes, no matter how smart you are, you can't avoid getting tripped up.

How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.

Judas is here a symbol of all our failures, and Christ's actions demonstrate his unconditional acceptance. Judas helps to remind us of Christ's message that he came for the sick rather than the healthy, and that he loves and accepts us as we are.

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

Seibel: There's a Dijkstra quote about how you can't prove by testing that a program is bug-free, you can only prove that you failed to find any bugs with your tests. But it sort of sounds the same way with a proof-you can't prove a program is bug-free with a proof-you can only prove that, as far as you understand your own proof, it hasn't turned up any bugs.

You've got the second-system problem where people who've had some success are given a blank slate and allowed to do whatever they want. Generally, they will fail because they'll be too ambitious, they won't understand the limits. And you get nothing out of that. You have to have extreme discipline to say, "It's not a blank slate; it's reimplementing what we had here; it's doing what we knew.

The reason they all failed and the reason they were big is that someone was already there.

finding ways to fail quickly, to invest less emotion and less time in any particular idea or prototype or piece of work, is a consistent feature of the work methods of successful experimental innovators.

Fixed mind-sets cause people to be overconcerned with seeking validation, such as grades, titles, or social recognition. Conversely, those favoring a growth mind-set believe that intelligence and abilities can be grown through effort, and tend to view failures or setbacks as opportunities for growth. They have a desire to constantly challenge and stretch themselves.

just failing is not the key; the key is to be systematically learning from failures.

Modernity has invented the loser.

The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression.' John Harvey Jones

Prostitution' similarly denotes a fall from grace, a failure to live up to expectations of productivity and chastity by women. All these, then, are images used mainly for young people, and their power lies in their association with failure.