Alexander Payne Quotes

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.

Failure is something which everybody has to face. It is part of life.

I can understand failure: I've failed loads of times in my life; it's not a problem. I've never feared it, because it's a part of life.

People make mistakes in life, and you get on with it.

There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.

Every now and then we're going to fail.

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.