Quotes About Risk-taking

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.

I've always been a bit of a daredevil, even as a little girl with a pretty high pain tolerance and things like that.

We must be bold. Timidity will yield us nothing.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

To start big projects, you must have the capacity for delusion. All the rational people, despite their brilliance, are too reasonable to start crazy things.

If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing.

Creative people generally are self-motivated, independent, delighted by novelty, risk takers, tolerant of ambiguity, deeply involved in their work, avid readers, and world travelers.

Q: Why did the turkey cross the road? A: To prove he wasn't a chicken.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

We must substitute courage for caution.

And a strong man, she said. Strong enough to be vulnerable, to take risks, to be honest even when honesty might expose him to ridicule or rejection. And someone who would put himself at the center of my world even before knowing that I would be willing to do the same for him. A man foolish and brave enough to tell me that he loves me even when I have hidden all signs that I love him in return.

Cookie, you have to stop preemptively ending things before they even start. I know you're afraid of making yourself vulnerable, but if you keep impeding things before they even begin, just out of fear, you'll never know. I'd never know joy. Shit damn. I worried she was right. What if I was snapping into screw you, your loss mode too fast? How do you take back, No you're the one who missed? Me and my drama trap doors.

I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.

I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.

If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

No te estoy pidiendo que te arrojes de un rascacielos ni que nades junto a ballenas ni nada parecido (aunque, en secreto, me encantaría pensar que lo estás haciendo), pero sí que vivas con osadía. Que seas exigente contigo misma. Que no te conformes.