Quotes About Risk-taking

The writer ended with a line from Eudora Welty: "All serious daring starts from within.

Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.

It was Raffles I loved. It was not the dark life we led together, still less its base rewards; it was the man himself, his gayety, his humor, his dazzling audacity, his incomparable courage and resource. And a very horror of turning to him again in mere need of greed set the seal on my first angry resolution. But the anger was soon gone out of me, and when at length Raffles bridged the gap by coming to me, I rose to greet him almost with a shout.

Act as though it were impossible to fail,

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!

He has trained himself not to sleep; he is leading teams of surveyors outside the city walls; his soldiers at the Throat Cutter have launched

Provided someone can persuade me, I will invest in anything.

The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.

On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.

There was something punk rock about Bobby Kennedy not going where the pollsters said or where consultants said. He was unmoored from what was safe or easy.

It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

I know that I often take risks, but it is always for the purposes of the team.

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

My whole life I've always innovated the gear to match my pursuits. I've innovated the best climbing gear, the best slacklining gear, and definitely the most advanced BASE jumping gear.

As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.

I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.