Margaret Atwood Quotes

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

Everything's not always perfect.

I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

It's tough never being right.

I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Nobody is completely perfect.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

I'm not perfect at all.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

Every day I fail at something.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.

We can't always play the perfect game.