Quotes About Daring

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

I think many young actors want to be daring. They want to surprise their fellow actors as well as their audiences.

Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.

I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.

I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

In Cancun, they put me up on a trapeze bar and I was carried across the ceiling over 2,000 people.

I have swung on a flying trapeze, explored a glacier, and been hit in the face by a shark's tail while scuba diving. I like to throw myself fully into projects and adventures, which is probably how I managed to publish a book in the first place.

I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

My brother Steve was always considered the naughty one but I used to drive my parents to despair because I had no fear. Id climb a tree without testing the branches and I was always getting into scrapes.

I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a plane, speak in front of a roomful of strangers, even trek across Siberia.

You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.

It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

If anything I urge you to live bravely and beyond your own comfort zone.

Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life.

Be different. Trust yourself. Be bold.

Pain that you fear becomes present if you dare.