Stephen Covey Quotes

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

I've always been quite careful about what I wanted to do. I've just never wanted to revisit old ground or do something that's easy. I want to do something that I would look at and go, "I don't know what to do!" The most exciting thing is when you're a bit scared, so I'm looking to find something that's really terrifying.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

Risk is an essential part of progress.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.