Quotes About Risk-taking

I think bravery is to get on the ball and be bold enough and confident enough to try things when everyone is looking at you and the pressure is on and people are expecting you to win.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.

On TV, one hardly gets opportunities to experiment.

I love to experiment, I don't have a fear of failure.

It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.

I have never shied away from experimental roles.

You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.

I've always been an adventurer, an explorer.

I always go extreme ways.

I had to find the courage to share not only myself but my art with the world. I faced fear, and I went for it. I wasn't a failure, and I'm very proud of myself.

If it's funny or it's good, then yeah, I'll do it. Whether it's big-screen or whatever wouldn't be the deciding factor for me.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

You should never be scared of failing.

Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and trying and failing in order to get there.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts. They take big risks and are pioneering new markets with the promise of big rewards. It's why Amazon is kind of reliably starting new businesses and opening kind of new frontiers.

Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries. There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if I have a particular gift, it's a mental one - the ability to keep it together where others might freak out.

We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.

I wanted to do a corkscrew moonsault backwards, so I had the idea of doing it forwards like the shooting star corkscrew, and I was aware no one else did that in wrestling. If I could perfect this technique, it would be unique to me.