Julie Macklowe Quotes

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

I think you make impacts by taking risks.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

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

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

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

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

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.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

I guess you can say I always liked to take chances. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.