Woody Allen Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.

  Woody Allen

  Meaningful, Sports, Religious

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

• If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Shakespeare, Woody Allen And A Certain Qantas A380" by Christine Negroni, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

• If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

  Woody Allen

  Failure, Trying, Learning From Mistakes

• In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

  Woody Allen

  Party, Two, Dresses

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

• If you aren't failing, you aren't trying.

  Woody Allen

  Trying, Failing, Ifs

• If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative

  Woody Allen

  Failing, Innovative, Ifs

• If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

  Woody Allen

  Safety, Risk, Playing It Safe

• As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?

  Woody Allen

  Jobs, Artist, Sight

• If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe.

  Woody Allen

  Safe, Failing, Now And Then

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