Quotes About Risk

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

It's always really scary to release new work.

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

Starships are all work and no fun.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.