Tom Brokaw Quotes

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

I want brave people. Fearless ones. A good actor just goes out and leaps off the edge and develops wings on his way down, hopefully. That's the kind of people I really enjoy working with. Playing safe isn't much fun. I like danger. It's controlled danger, always, and that's why I hope I don't lure too many good actors down into the pits with me, because I hope they maintain their own unique talents.

It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it... constantly go to the well... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

Nought venture nought have.

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.