Quotes About Failure

When I lose, I take it very personally.

Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I'm not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to England as a means of escape, and it was a failure.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

I was surprised that 'The Peter Serafinowicz Show' didn't get a second series. There are things like that that get stifled at birth and you wonder why they didn't happen.

Enzo was a guy that put a long time down in NXT with Big Cass, but once they came up to the main roster, you go into a whole different learning phase or you're supposed to. You can't be too hard headed about that because there are people trying to help you and if you don't listen to those people and you fail, then it's on you.

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

If you recognize a photograph by me, I'm a failure.

A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.