Isak Dinesen Quotes

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

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.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.