George Leonard Quotes

The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.

If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that's what I hope people realize.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.

Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you.

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.