Quotes About Risk-taking

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

I literally started skating handrails when I was seven years old, with no helmet on, so I was just bred into this type of skating where you have to be kind of fearless and just go for it.

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

I've always been the, 'Sure, I'll try that' guy. I'm very adventurous and don't have fears. I think I got that from my mother's side because she was an Olympic skier. Jump off a mountain with a parachute? Sure. What could possibly go wrong?

The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

I always love to do my own stunts when they let me, right?

always courting disaster to experience the biggest high. I'd been living the deranged life. I felt so nihilistic, yet why hadn't I just tuned in and dropped out? Instead, I followed Jim Morrison's credo, the credo of Coleridge and, at one point, Wordsworth, the credo of self-discovery through self-destruction I so willfully subscribed to until this moment:

The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

We are born adventurers, and the love of adventures never leaves us till we are very old; old, timid men, in whose interest it is that adventure should quietly die out. This is why all the poets are on one side, and all the laws on the other; for laws are made by, and usually for, old men.

Most sensitive boys tend to pause to reflect before acting and would not be considered risk-takers. This tendency can easily be understood as demonstrating a healthy caution. However, in most societies boys are frequently encouraged to engage in risky behavior and are praised when they do so, while more cautious behavior is regarded with shame.

But isn't that what life is about? Trying new things? Finding out what you love doing? Then taking a deep dive into it?

So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed?

There's nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things.

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.

I've been a business person for 30 years. I started my own companies; I've invested in others.

I have personally invested in a company created by Rohit Khattar - Cinestaan Film Company. But that's what I do personally.

We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.

At the end of the day, when you're young you think you're invincible.

Putting myself out there knowing I can be criticized - it's ironic, but to me, that's the most empowering thing.

My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.

Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.