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Quotes About Risk-taking

I wish more people would be allowed to take risks and try new things and new ideas because new ideas are what this industry desperately needs. I mean, how many shooters can you make?
~ David Cage
My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.
~ Miranda July
At Nintendo, we do not run from risk. We run to it.
~ Satoru Iwata
Every game, you've got to play with no fear.
~ Jesse Lingard
I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.
~ Zendaya
Just go for it. Don't be afraid of trying new things. You have absolutely no idea what's going to present itself to you. Don't be frightened. Just buckle down and do whatever your heart desires.
~ Phyllis Smith
Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Our real discoveries come from chaos. From going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Again, Benji was reminded of the girl's absurd bravery. She had nothing to gain here. The man, Clade Berman, was nowhere near her own sister. He presented no danger to anyone but his own family. That marked her as someone who had a lot of untapped courage - there was that word again, echoing the conversation with Arav - or someone who cared little for herself or her own life. (He wondered idly, How often do those two things intertwine?)
~ Chuck Wendig
I once saw a Betsey Johnson runway show that featured thongs and ass cleavage, and I thought, This is the future .
~ Cintra Wilson
Walkman cassette player was temporarily put on hold when market research indicated that consumers would never buy a tape player that didn't have the capacity to record and that customers would be irritated by the use of earphones. But Morita ignored his marketing department's warning, trusting his own gut instead. The Walkman went on to sell over 330 million units and created a worldwide culture of personal music devices.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
You can't drive down the middle of the Mall! I damned well can and will so long as we live to tell about it!
~ Clive Cussler
He paid his people for their intellect and their opinions, not to play it safe until the answer was obvious.
~ Vince Flynn
she was a pioneer, a stray, venturing, trusting.
~ Virginia Woolf
Continuerò ad azzardare, a cambiare, ad aprire la mente e gli occhi, rifiutando di lasciarmi incasellare e stereotipare. Ciò che conta è liberare il proprio io: lasciare che trovi le sue dimensioni, che non abbia vincoli.
~ Virginia Woolf
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.
~ Larry Page
Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers.
~ Cecil Beaton
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
~ Charles F. Kettering
The point is that progress—whether in business, an economy, or science—comes through experimentation and failure
~ Charles G. Koch
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
~ Edward John Phelps, 1889
You know you're a skydiver when you try to convince the flight attendant on a commercial flight that you really would be much more comfortable sitting on the floor.
~ Author Unknown
Los jugadores necesitan saber que no deben tener miedo a intentar cosas, ni a perder el balón, porque en eso consiste el fútbol. Messi sabe que siempre puede hacer jugadas porque sabe que tiene a diez compañeros detrás de él dispuestos a ayudarlo si es necesario. Cuando tanto el defensa como el delantero se sienten importantes y protegidos, tenemos a un equipo ganador.
~ Guillem Balagué
Millennials are exceptionally independent and innovative. Striking out on your own and failing a few times is de rigueur, while going to work for a company on the expectation that you'll build a 30-year career there is unheard of.
~ S.E. Cupp
When we were making 'Scam 92,' we knew that it was something unique.
~ Pratik Gandhi