Quotes About Risk-taking

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

Our first radio single, 'The Stage,' was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise.

We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.

I'm a completely fearless musician.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

I drive an old Camaro that I got when I was 16. And I've been known to do stupid things with my time, like Friendster.

If I wanted to make a lot of money with 'Hedwig,' I could have spent all my time on it. But that's boring.

I'm incredibly hopeful - in many ways, still very naive. I think a lot of that has helped me. My sort of naivete has sort of gotten me in trouble at times, but I haven't stopped myself from doing things.

We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.

I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. I

Boldness in itself is genius.

L'audace, I'audace, toujours l'audace! " Remember that, gentlemen. From here on out, until we win or die in the attempt, we will aways be audacious.

Tessa: I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" Will: "I've never swum naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

You know you're nuts, right?" His brother should know him better than to be surprised that when he did something, he went all in. "No, I'm just that good." Although when riding a bucking animal that out-weighed a man by ten times, being a little crazy didn't hurt.

The way to become really wealthy is to start at the top and not at the bottom. Be an entrepreneur and not an employee.

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

Today tinkering is the order of the day as Chinese leaders "cross the river by feeling the stones.

There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic. How

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.