Quotes About Failure

If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don't work out.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

Making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.