Hidetaka Miyazaki Quotes

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

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.

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

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

Take risks and try new things.

It doesn't ever hurt to try different stuff.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

All adventure is now reactionary.

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

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.

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

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.

I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

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

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

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

I want to do something very surprising next. I don't know what that is - something that has a high degree of risk.

Fans should be encouraged that I want to try different things.