Gavin Newsom Quotes

The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

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

The best stuff happens when you take a chance. When you risk something and do the thing that the other people are taking a chance on, on a network kind of level, they will be rewarded. You know, risk-reward.

For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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.

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.

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.

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.

I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.