Naomi Quotes

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

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

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

Nothing you could do would make me mad. You're a complete official failure.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

The Yardbirds sort of disbanded, and I was disappointed because I thought what we were doing was really good. I thought we were really onto something. I thought I was really onto something with these ideas that I had.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I missed out on the World Cup twice and it did not kill me.