Quotes About Boldness

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

There's a lot of songs and songwriters out there - you have to make something stand out to pitch songs. Sometimes you have to be bold and just try something different. And just stick with it - don't give up if nothing happens.

Londoners always seem to be fearless and more willing to have fun with their look. New Yorkers tend to play it safer - sticking with neutrals and black. In London, people aren't afraid to mix patterns and colours.

If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.

I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

I make the decisions nobody else has the stomach to make.

I was very confident on the stage, and I stood out in a red gown.

Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.

I've gone up to a random guy in a grocery store before and said, 'Hi, I think you're cute. Are you single?' I'm not smooth. I just put it out there.

I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.

You know that saying about how fools rush in where wise men fear to tread? Ashok rushes in where fools won't even go.