Leon Wieseltier Quotes

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Once on the tiger's back, we cannot be sure of picking the place to dismount.

Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

Politics is not a laboratory experiment where you can control everything. You have to take calls even when you feel that matters may spin out of your hand.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

Living involves making bold choices. You can't always know how they're going to turn out, and you can always play that game of wondering what might have been if you had made another decision.

It's important to take leaps of faith.

In a field like acting, there is pressure of all kinds, and it becomes tricky to navigate this space. There isn't a particular path laid out to get what you want; you have to figure out ways to get there on your own. And yet, there is no guarantee of getting what you want. At times, you don't know whom to listen to or whose advice to follow.

There is something attractive about taking risks.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.

Sometimes in football you have to take risks.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

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

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

You never know where you stand - and I like that. I like to be on edge.