Failure Handling Quotes

Failure is easy to handle because once you fail, the options are very simple... like, 'Try something different,' or, 'Maybe if you do the same thing, do it in a different way.'

This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it.

Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.

In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

Failure is a resource that can be managed.

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.

One thing I'd like to do better personally is decompress. Obviously when things don't go your way, you'll be thinking of it all the time.

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity.

Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.

In my career, I have learnt how to handle failures in a matured manner.

I wanted to have the no. 1 show on the Discovery channel. I went for it for a very long time, and I was knocking on every door in L.A. that would answer, and sleeping in front of Discovery's office, probably. It wasn't working, so I decided to regroup and take a break from knocking on doors.

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.