Adrien Brody Quotes

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

When people are talking about manifesting, we can say, "I want a car, I want a car, I want a car," but if the mind is running, "I don't deserve it, I'll never be able to afford it, I'll never be a success" - if all those things are running - then those things are what we're really manifesting. They are exactly what's running our life. And as long as we believe those thoughts, thinking positively is not strong enough to override our negative beliefs.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can.

I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

There's a kind of magical thinking about these kinds of things. Throw away those bad photos before the "magic" attaches to them, so the good ones stand out.

If you think of something negative and you keep it in your head, you are going to actually live that. Now, if you think of something great and positive and joyful, you're going to actually live that. You've got to be careful what you put in your head. Basically, I'll call that: "Don't ever play yourself."

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do

We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

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.

Cause you know, life is what we make it and a chance is like a picture, it'd be nice if you just take it.

To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.

I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.