Unsuccessful Attempts Quotes

Some losses are harder to take than others. You can lose and play well. It is when you lose and don't do the things you worked on and don't do what you say you would that is difficult.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Most of the balls that I've dropped have been from a result of trying to run before I actually catch the ball. It's frustrating. I just have to go and fix them.

ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Maybe we’ve done the best thing but sometimes have done it in the worst way.

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.

I never had a burning desire to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the only person I'd do this with.' So we tried, but I was a little long in the tooth for that sort of thing. But we didn't turn it into a soap opera. We tried for about a year or so, and it didn't happen and took that to mean it wasn't meant to be.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.

Remember that you cannot please everybody because you are likely to end up pleasing nobody.

I had no release in 2013. I worked on four films; none of them saw the light of day.

When I force things, it just doesn't go well.

From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.