With engineering I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure and your people know that and are pessimistic therefore about trying something again is very high.

With improvisation I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

With failure you just try again.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

If you're not a born-again Christian you're a failure as a human being.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again in sickness and in health in success and in failure with anticipation and with dread.

I've tried to handle winning well so that maybe we'll win again but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball but to sport.