Quotes About Failure

The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child)," Mau's maxim went. "Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

A failed democracy, Plato warned, creates the conditions for tyranny based on popular support.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

I hit big or I miss big.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

I do remember my first 3-point attempt. I missed it.

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.

Everyone I know, including myself, has missed or lost an audition.

All of us make mistakes and the majority of us have missed a day's work for whatever reason.

I've hit a lot of big shots and missed a lot of big shots, and I'll continue to shoot them.

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

There will be hits and misses; you can't take it to heart. Of course, you feel bad when something doesn't do as well as you expected it to, but it's a part of being in films.

I hate missing dunks.

Guys are missing rewards and opportunities right now because they're feeling that pressure not to fail. And they're not learning about themselves because they're not failing - you're too busy patting yourself on the back to learn anything when stuff's going well.

If your body can take it, you can play forever if management wants you. But if you start missing field goals and losing games, then you are not long for the world.

Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio's never heard of you.

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

'Karzzz' was a mistake.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.