Unsuccessful Endeavors Quotes

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

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

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.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.

I had no release in 2013. I worked on four films; none of them saw the light of day.

While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

The insistence on a perfect cure often results in no betterment whatsoever.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing with the same result over and over again, expecting something different. The left just spent how many months trying to destroy Donald Trump, trying to impugn Donald Trump with every weapon they had, with every trick in their book, every tactic that has been successfully used by the media to destroy Republican candidates over the years. It's in their playbook. They brought it all out. Every bit of it blew up in their face; all of it failed. And yet they continue with the same tried and true and worn-out techniques to discredit Trump.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

For some time past I have conscious that I was wasting my own time and the public money on doing work that produces no result.

Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.

I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.