Quotes About Risk-taking

I was at the point of disarming my slaves and driving them away, when they relented, and professed to be willing to go anywhere; so, being eager to finish my geographical work, I said I would run the risk of their desertion, and gave beads to buy provisions for a start north. I

Only the brave and adventuresome find God, never the timid.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.

You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.