Quotes About Risk

That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.

Sometimes success means having the right idea in the right place at the right time. Other times, it's about not being afraid to quit and move onto something new.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

Don't be afraid to try something new.

I wanted to do something new and different. People expected me to do negative roles. I wanted to break the norm, and because of that, I lost on some great work as well.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy.

I've been lucky enough to do a few editorials in the U.K., but I've never even been on a casting for mainstream commercial work. When I try to understand it, I think people are scared to try something new.

Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new from you if they decided they didn't like the first one.

If you don't take risks in your life, you never feel something new, so I taste something new, and I like that.

I would say to anyone choosing to embark on something new with their hair, just do it - it's just hair! Have fun, and sometimes it works, sometimes it won't.

Going through life is always scary doing something new, at the same time it is very exciting.

If youre sure that everything youre going to do is going to be good, then whats the point? I used to think of it as just crippling self-doubt. Now I kind of see it as a sign that Im teetering on the edge of something new. Or troubling.

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.

I think I could do good against some of the top welterweights. Yeah, pretty big guys, but you gotta live some times, you gotta step up sometime, huh?

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

Sometimes people like the bad boy.

I wouldn't say I'm a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.

As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?

Doing things with serious consequences, whether it's death or seriously mangling myself, puts me in a hyper-aware state, and has become somewhat of an addiction for me.

The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.

Traditionally, there's been a desire to make shows relatable so the maximum number of people would think of those characters as being recognizably like them. The risk there is you can push everything in a somewhat generic direction.

You cannot deliver to your maximum if you're thinking 'if I do an error, it might close a door to somewhere' or whatever.