Ken Marino Quotes

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

People get so scared to try things.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

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

I think we could do with being a little more adventurous in certain areas and push on that little bit more, while a bit of luck also wouldn't go amiss.

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Above all, try something

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.