Krzysztof Kieslowski Quotes

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.

There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.'

The truth of the matter is, I worry about nearly every bit I've ever done. I'm very critical of myself.

I didn't get a pilot slot my first time trying. We Texans don't give up easy, and everything we've accomplished is just the beginning.

Sometimes I feel like I have a good shot, and then I see somebody that has a better shot.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

I have no problems with failures, I'm afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don't sleep that night. I'm scared of facing myself.

You learn from your mistakes and you learn from your failures. It's how you get up that defines you to a certain extent.

When you're not playing, you always question yourself.

I'm not a guy who is willing to accept not playing.

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.