Naseeruddin Shah Quotes

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

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

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

You can't win them all.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Failure usually works for me in the end.

Hope is the raw material of losers.