For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
Copy QuoteNothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Copy Quote View & ShareFar better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Copy Quote View & ShareI can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Copy Quote View & ShareDefeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Copy Quote View & ShareEvery adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Copy Quote View & ShareA failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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