Conor Lamb Quotes

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

Somebody has to try it.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

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

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

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

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

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

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.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail