Michael Douglas Quotes

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.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

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

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

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

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

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

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

I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

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.

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.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

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

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

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

It would have been easy to try to make 'Opus Eponymous II' and just stick with a routine. But it just felt like, if this is going to go anywhere, we need to take big steps every time.

Comfort is the killer of creativity.

I feel like the fools who dream and who take risks are the ones who change the world.