Steven Soderbergh Quotes

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

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.

The fear of failure never goes away. In many ways, you could argue that success multiplies the opportunities for failure. It's just more of an argument for becoming more comfortable with it.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

I've never been afraid to fail.

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

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.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.

When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

If I've got a message to the younger generation, it's this: don't be scared of failure. Get out there, try things, and never be afraid to ask for help.

Don't let people make you afraid of taking chances in life. And if you fail, it's no big deal. Get back up and fight through it and be successful again. If you did it once, you can do it again.

I'm OK with failing. You've got to fail in life in order to get better. I'm going to be fine.

I'm not afraid of failure.

I don't live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I'm embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

I'm not afraid to fail - at all.

You have to be willing to fail, because you're not going to make every shot.

I don't take success seriously. For me, failure is a constant.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.