Kevin Jorgeson Quotes

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.