Mitch Hedberg Quotes

Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Adapt or Die

My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

Any sort of major change we want to make in our life is hard. Change is not easy and true change takes time and takes thousands, millions probably, of failures along that path and that's the interesting thing.

You don't need to change something if it is working.

When you find yourself hitting up against a wall over and over again, it's time to try a different route.

Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

If you are losing at a game, change the game.

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.