Failure doesn’t cancel out heroism. When the odds are against you, it takes courage to try.
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She does stink and she should quit. But I don't want it to be because of me. It should be the traditional route; years of rejections and failures ’til she's spit out the bottom of the porn industry.
— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
Why did it all turn out like this for me? I had so much promise. I was personable, I was bright. Oh, maybe not academically speaking, but...I was perceptive. I always know when someone's uncomfortable at a party. It became very clear to me sitting out there today, that every decision I've ever made…
— Andy Cowan, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
Quiet! You shut up! You make me change restaurant, but nobody comes! You say make Pakistani, Babu Bhatt have only Pakistani restaurant. But where are people? You see people? Show me people. There are no people.
If you do not fight for what you want, someone will take it from you. Do not be afraid that you are not good enough. You always set yourself up for failure if you do not try.
I did what you said. I looked at my life from an outside perspective. It was terrifying. I didn't recognize any of it. I don't recognize my life. I don't know whether I made any of the right decisions. Everything could be wrong.
— Stephen Falck, Brad Hunt, Jimmy Shive-Overly, Chris Geere, imdb.com
The only way to fail is to stop trying.
There's no excuses to be made. We lost the game.
The one thing that derail a team is a thing called the injury bugs.
The loss tonight... And the loss today is gonna hurt for a long time.
She was still on the fall down. There was no getting up, because there was no bottom.
The vast majority of all human effort, however great or minuscule, ends in failure. So what are your options? You just admit pre-defeat that odds are you’re going to be right or you do it anyway. Maybe we’re a success regardless of the outcome, because we tried. Maybe there’s beauty in the struggle…
Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems to me the main thing you learn from failure is that it's entirely possible you will have another failure.
And I misspelled, in front of the entire school, the word "failure".
We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a failed experiment. Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
When I played baseball I got death threats all the time–from my mother.
I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.