Quotes About Risk-taking

Stunts are really fun.

Is there fear? No, there isn't. Now, I've made mistakes. I've broken 56 bones in my body, and each one was a mistake. But when we do stunts, there's just no room for fear.

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.

I play a lot quicker, in quite an attacking style, play a few little crazy shots sometimes that other players wouldn't take.

We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.

TV stars don't know how to dress up, and they have to hire a stylist. This is true to a great extent. That's why I go out of my way to experiment. Sometimes I hit the bullseye, sometimes I miss.

New industries are created by entrepreneurs who don't necessarily have subject matter expertise when they get started, yet they are still responsible for most of the innovation we see in society.

As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

Don't be a chicken, be a cat!" said Cecil. "Be adventurous".

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity and a kind of "What if...

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.