Art Buchwald Quotes

I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

Life for me is about movement.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

I believe that life is about doing.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we, as a species, are scratching that itch, we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it.

I've never been one to enjoy just sitting around.

I love to experiment and take every opportunity as a challenge.

I want to be someone who takes risks but also stays engaged by trying new things.

I always have the desire for a new challenge.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.

Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty. Because there is no security, there is adventure. Because the future is unknown, nobody knows what is going to happen the next moment. That's why there is challenge, growth, adventure. If you miss adventure, you miss all. If your life is not that of an adventure, of a search into the unknown, then you are living in vain.

See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.