The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.
It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
I made some choices that weren't right in the past. It cost me in terms of my confidence and everything.
My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not a regret, it's just like that. But looking back, those failures helped me consider football differently, consider the professional game differently.
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.
I have gone into every project with the same enthusiasm and the same hope, but some have worked out, and some haven't.
Failure usually works for me in the end.
No one ever said learning was to be easy, but it's part of the process of evolving as a human being, and we all have to go through it. When I look back, I see that each difficult time brought an important lesson. And I prefer to look at it with gratitude because I wouldn't be who I am today if I haven't gone through it all.
You learn in the pros that errors can be costly.
I have only worked with Saroj Ji once in my life and in the one time that I worked with her, I learned so many things.
When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
I was only in Scotland for four months or something, but I look back at that, and it was a big learning curve for me in that short spell. I went there with an open mind to show everyone in Scotland what I was about. Looking back, I am very glad with the decision I made.
I received most of my business education around the dinner table. Whether I listened to my father or brothers, or we had business people as dinner guests, I learned from everyone.
All experience is good experience.
I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.
To be honest, my time at Dortmund wasn't a big success. I didn't settle well at the club and eventually moved on to Sevilla. But I am forever grateful about it because it gave me the opportunity to work with Jurgen Klopp. If I didn't go to Germany, I would never have had a chance to work with him.
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.
I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.
You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.
