Quotes About Risk-taking

I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.

This at the very moment when a girl should explore, listen to her evolving interests, and take risks to figure out who she is. But in the Complex, she hears the opposite: Play it safe. Specialize. Trade what you love to do for what looks good and feels safe.

the willingness to be ruthless helps innovation.

Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed, because the natural human tendency is to do more of the same and to serve existing clients and needs well, past relationships can be positively detrimental.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

I would like to take up any kind of film that comes my way if I find the story interesting and challenging.

I love Channel 4 and Clerkenwell Films, they aren't afraid to take risks.

Transformational leaders are important because they make choices that most other leaders would not.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

I was never a wallflower - I put my head on the style chopping block.

When you're young, you feel like you're Superman and that you can't be hurt.

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.

I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

People laughed at me for setting up a surf shop.

I'll try anything once. It's always good to see peoples' faces surprised - surprised that I race, or that I surf, that I trekked through the Himalayas. As long as I don't die, I'm good.

Whymper se stal tradi?ním horolezcem – pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tím, kterým na Matterhornu být nechtÄ›l.