Quotes About Failure

When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.

I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.

The failure of 'Naach' shook me badly. I have never really been upset about any film doing badly. But 'Naach' was something else.

I'm upset when I miss.

I will say - and not to sound arrogant - people would have been upset if I failed my cash-in. Yeah, it would not have been a good move. I didn't really think that was going to happen, but you never know. It's always a possibility.

While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

The one trait in a lot of dyslexic people I know is that by the time we got out of college, our ability to deal with failure was very highly developed. And so we look at most situations and see much more of the upside than the downside.

Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. If it still doesn't work out, success may not be your thing.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.