M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

My first year at Queen's Park, I just wasn't good enough, but that tough period shaped me.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.