Quotes About Audacity

Art is what you get away with

Total commitment, I said. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

Nice bird, asshole!

He has developed an aesthete's appreciation for the knavishness, the guile, the selfish cleverness of so many of his clients, appreciating human misbehavior for its miserable creativity. In almost every criminal case, there is a moment that combines inspired imagination with sheer audacity in a way that leaves Stern gasping, and full of perverse admiration for conduct he knows he would never have the courage to attempt.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

And if it be deemed a great wickedness to contaminate any thing that is dedicated to God, he surely cannot be endured, who, with impure, or even with unprepared hands, will handle that very thing, which of all things is the most sacred on earth. It is therefore an audacity, closely allied to a sacrilege, rashly to turn Scripture in any way we please, and to indulge our fancies as in sport; which has been done by many in former times

The critique of the domesticated Jesus has a long pedigree, perhaps the most notable being Dostoyevsky's chilling account of Jesus having the audacity to show up and disturb the machinations of the crusades in Seville (which, in fact, Jesus doesn't disturb at all precisely because his nonviolence can be so easily silenced).

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

So that my life be brave, what though not long?

Males always have something pathetic about them, at every age. A fragile arrogance, a frightened audacity. I no longer know, today, if they ever aroused in me love or only an affectionate sympathy for their weaknesses.

Writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.

Me avergüenza no haber imaginado la medida de su audacia, y lo atribuyo a ser hijo único, caprichoso y despectivo. Parece trivial bucear en tratados de economía, buscando causas objetivas para la pobreza o la opulencia de distintas naciones. No hay más nación que la humanidad, a pesar de todo.

Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

I'm willing to go further than other people on camera.

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

When I took on 'Fargo,' I thought, 'Well, this is just a terrible idea. Four people will watch it, and they'll hate-watch.' But that allowed me to just go for it and take the risks.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase' to the Independants, and they asked me to withdraw it before the opening.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.