Quotes About Risk

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.

Be risky at work. Be safe with your investments.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it's not a safe bet, even if it's like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you're wrong or bad or crazy.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.