Quotes About Risk

Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling. You're rolling the dice on the slim odds that your investment of time, energy, and resources now might pay off later in a big way—that somebody might buy your work, and that you might become successful.

Bravery means doing something scary. Fearlessness means not even understanding what the word scary means.

life is both dangerous and fleeting, and thus there is no point in denying yourself pleasure or adventure while you are here.

creative living is a path for the brave. We

The war had invested me with an understanding that life is both dangerous and fleeting, and thus there is no point in denying yourself pleasure or adventure while you are here.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. —COLETTE

Creative living is a path for the brave.

I wish somebody had told them all to go fill up a bunch of pages with blah-blah-blah and just publish it, for heaven's sake, and ignore the outcome.

I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too.

Oh, the deliciously blinding yearnings of the young—which inevitably take us right to the edges of cliffs, or trap us in cul-de-sacs of our design.

Just write anything and put it out there with reckless abandon.

These were risks I was willing to take. It was more important for me to feel free than safe.

your fear will always show up—especially when you're trying to be inventive or innovative. Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

If you are a pretty young woman looking for trouble in a big city, it's not difficult to find. But if you are two pretty young women looking for trouble, then trouble will tackle you on every corner—which is just how we wanted it.

Exactly because the human heart is such a mystery, love renders all our plans and all our intentions a great big gamble.

Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You can certainly live without the debt, because debt will always be the abattoir of creative dreams.

The two of us went digging for trouble with a shovel and a pickax that summer, and we never had the slightest trouble finding it.

I take leaps and gambles with my work all the time—or at least I try to. You must be willing to take risks if you want to live a creative existence. But if you're going to gamble, know that you are gambling. Never roll the dice without being aware that you are holding a pair of dice in your hands. And make certain that you can actually cover your bets (both emotionally and financially).

Everything is so goddamn scary.

ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too.

I've watched far too many brilliant and gifted female creators say, "I am 99.8 percent qualified for this task, but until I master that last smidgen of ability, I will hold myself back, just to be on the safe side.

You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you've given up. Every