Abhay Deol Quotes

Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.

I didn't handle success all that well.

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.

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.

You were totally unprepared for her.” “That's for damned sure.

About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.

The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

My past is everything I failed to be.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

If I had won...all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character is. This guy is successful, he has everything, but his wife has left him. The most important value - love - is missing. What is wrong with this institution called 'marriage'? What is wrong with this institution called 'the pursuit of happiness'?

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.