Gayle Lynds Quotes

Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

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.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

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.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

I'm not a writer. As for direction, I don't have the guts to do that. Still you can never say never.

Sometimes you have to take the risk that somebody will consider what you're making is noise, but if you don't try it, then nothing will move forward. I'd rather people hate something than just go 'meh.'

She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

It matters if you don't just give up.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

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.

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.

I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.