Gail Sheehy Quotes

If I had doubts, I would've never walked into the ring.

My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

I love taking chances.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.

There is something to be said about making a big play at any time.

I'm not afraid of taking big shots and things like that. It's a 50-50 chance. It might go in, it might not, but I'm not scared to take it.

If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because you've literally put your ass on the line.

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

I like to do something I fear.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I like when people take chances.

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!