David Viscott Quotes

Without risk, there can be no growth.

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

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

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

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

Growth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand.

Without risk you can't experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life---reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.

The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.

When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."

Risk is an essential part of progress.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.