Feist Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

I am bored with it all.

Our movement has accomplished nothing—anywhere.

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

Incompetent and relentless are the worst combination of qualities.

If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruised and battered.

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.

I'm able to do nothing.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

When you play well, and you don't win, in the end, you get tired. You've lost something. You've lost time.

There is mental as well as physical fatigue. You have to cry, scream, keep on repeating the same dialogue till you get it right.

There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.

I think I didn't win a match for one, one-and-a-half years.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

But nothing seems to do any good.