Flying Lotus Quotes

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

It doesn't ever hurt to try different stuff.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

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

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

I've always been colorful and taken risks.

Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

I think you make impacts by taking risks.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

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

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels.