Greta Gerwig Quotes

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.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

'Guest Iin London' didn't work, but it got me more work; it helped me grow as an actor.

Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn't change a thing!

Whenever I have experienced failure in my career, those experiences have made me more mature as a player.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.