Failure Experience Quotes

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

I've failed my fair share of times no doubt.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn't very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not a regret, it's just like that. But looking back, those failures helped me consider football differently, consider the professional game differently.

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

I have had my share of flops and it's very discouraging. It's pathetic to be on that side.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

That's why this game is so great. It's a game of failure.

I'm not good at vacationing. I've repeatedly failed at palapas and mai-tais.

I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

I do remember my first 3-point attempt. I missed it.

It's the failure of my debut film which made me an actor, which made me want to succeed in the industry. But that doesn't mean I regret whatever choices I've made over the years. No, not even 'Kaiyethum Doorathu!'

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

To be honest, my first film Akhil' was a disaster and to come out of the negativity it brought, it took a lot of time.

I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

I was so horrifically bad at tennis.

It hurts when you are at a club you loved, a place where you think you might want to end your career, and things go badly.

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

When you come back on top after you've fallen, it's a better story.