Quotes About Risk-taking

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Commit yourself to do something innovative which average people are afraid to do. Aim high and push yourself to achieve every thing you wished.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

My Top 5 Exercises: 1. Jumping to conclusions 2. Flying off the handle 3. Carrying things too far 4. Dodging responsibilities 5. Pushing my Luck

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

You say reckless. I say fearless.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

Sane is boring.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

If you take employee engagement seriously, you take on a no halfway, no turning-back high adventure of finding out just how far your personal and organizational courage will take you.

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.