Jess Walter Quotes

Failure affects me hard.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

I've gotten rejected a lot.

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.

When you get disappointments, you bounce back.

When things don't go your way, it bites you from within, and you have to find a way to get out of it.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

Rejection kills, disappointment only maims.

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.