Herbert Bayard Swope Quotes

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

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Please all and you please none.

It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

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

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

You know, you don't please everybody.

I suck at golf and a variety of other things I go out and do with my friends.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

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

You can't please all the people all the time.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

You can’t give people enough pork to make them happy about a failure to reform.