Walter Alston Quotes

I just try to take everything in my stride.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

I don't stress too much on things, be it failure or success.

You just go out there and do the best you can. If it hits, it hits. And if it doesn't, you go on to the next thing.

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Failure usually works for me in the end.

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

I don't think I was a failure. I just wasn't a success.

I'm just maintaining the same mindset that I had going into the 2012 Olympics and Olympic trials, which is just, whatever happens, happens.

If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

When you get 10-15 minutes, you can't be sad or angry with the coach. You just have to play your game and do your best. That is in my mind always.

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums. So I try, as much as possible, to keep an even keel.

I have always taken everything as it comes and tried to stay in good shape.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

You just try to make the best decisions you can. You just take life as it comes to you and do your best.

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally.

I don't go crazy when I don't have my best game and say: 'Oof, I've lost my chance, I'm not going to play again.'

There will be good times, and there will be bad, but one has to, to the extent possible, take things in one's stride.