Robin Hobb Quotes

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Change takes courage.

I think change is always scary but also always good.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.

If we want to get to the next level, let's take a risk and try something different.

We are always in a state of flux, and taking risks is important.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

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.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

Everyone fears change. But what you'll find is that change breeds your most important accomplishments.