adapting to failure Quotes

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

Failure should be our teacher...

You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.

Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.

I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.

Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.

There's no problem being wrong; it's a learning opportunity.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.