Dan Scanlon Quotes

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

There are times in my career where I could've called it quits, and that would've ate at me for the rest of my life.

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

Find the confidence in whatever way you can to just keep moving onto the next page. The only way you will finish projects and get better is to keep moving forward.

In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.

If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

I move ahead, I live.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

The person who lets them get you down, any kind of problem, is the person that fades out. So you've got to be strong enough; you don't like it, but you've got to be strong enough to accept what's going on and that you're going to fight it or whatever it takes to overcome this matter. That's the way I feel.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

With failure, you just try again.

Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.