Karen DeCrow Quotes

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

I love the idea of someone getting knocked down repeatedly, but they still believe in love.

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

A lot of people have been rejected and they just give up. I have never had that mentality.

There's a lot of songs and songwriters out there - you have to make something stand out to pitch songs. Sometimes you have to be bold and just try something different. And just stick with it - don't give up if nothing happens.

The person who fails the most wins.

If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

And remember how he wrote the first Rocky in a few days, and wouldn't sell the script even though he was starving, because they wanted to put somebody else in the lead role. To see what he's accomplished, dog, that's what it's all about.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

The early days were really difficult because it was constant no's, I didn't have an agent. I always knew that I had something to offer, but it just felt like I could never get someone to give me a chance.

You don't lose because of one play.

Don't take it personally if you're met with opposition. Work hard anyway.

Sometimes things don't go your way, but you get up and keep going.

The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.

The one thing I've said before, the one thing that I've been taught is that when you fall, you get right back up. And I'm up.

I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.

When you chase a dream, and no one understand or has your back except seven friends from high school and your grandma, it's not going to be easy.

When I got knocked down, I got back up.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

I believe success is delayed failure.

I say to people all the time, it is OK to fail. Some of the greatest successes in the history of America started out as failures.