Quotes About Risk-taking

Once I came up with the 'Stone Cold' thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn't afraid to push the envelope.

I stood up for what I believed in starting businesses.

Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.

I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.

Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.

The Most successful industry of the last forty years has been built on failure after failure after failure.

Better for a man to fail, he said, even "to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

there has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.

YOU TOOK YOUR SHOT." Instantly I felt free and in control. I knew from then on that I could have the courage to fail on my own terms. From that moment, I decided that if I was going to succeed or fail, it was going to be up to me. I was changed forever.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the edge see them first." —Kurt Vonnegut

Last but not least, much of what I recommend will seem impossible and even offensive to basic common sense—I expect that. Resolve now to test the concepts as an exercise in lateral thinking. If you try it, you'll see just how deep the rabbit hole goes, and you won't ever go back.

To become "successful," you have to say "yes" to a lot of experiments. To learn what you're best at, or what you're most passionate about, you have to throw a lot against the wall.

It's good not to follow the herd. Go the other way. If everyone's going that way, you go this other way. You're gonna stumble, but you're also gonna stumble upon an idea no one came up with. . . .

I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.

I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.

We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions: there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

I think you jump into things without thinking ahead very much because I had never been in an airplane - even in a commercial airliner. I had never flown at all. I just wanted to be commissioned, to be a commissioned officer.

I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.

My goal is to always be a transformational leader, and to go big. And when you go big, you don't always win. And I'm OK with that.

One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.

People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing for artists. It's like, 'Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.'