Failure Expectation Quotes

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

I'll never forget the moment in class when I went from being afraid to fail, to expecting to fail. This informs everything I do.

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.

Don’t expect to succeed with most of your efforts. Ted Williams, the best baseball hitter of all time, in his best hear only hit 407. He did not succeed 60 percent of the time.

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I've been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn't. And then I've thought, 'This movie's not going anywhere,' and it worked. The same thing with television shows.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

I felt like everyone was shitting on me, like, "She didn't get that deal with Interscope. She got dropped! She won't get another project!" making it so much worse then any of it really was. I felt like they wanted me to fail and I thought, I'm not going to go anywhere. I'm going to get my glory. I'm going to get my shine.

People are training for success when they should be training for failure.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

We knew we could fail; we just didn't think we would.

Getting or not getting the job isn't an indicator of your abilities. You're going to get jobs when you think you sucked, and you're not going to get jobs when you think you rocked.