Quotes About Failure

George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.

Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle.

Everyone helping out was supposed to make me feel better, but it actually made me feel more like a screw up.

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.