Henry Van Dyke Quotes

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good place.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

All of life is a wager

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

I've had to make really big decisions, knowing the results were not always in my control. Through these moments, I've learned to be daring and take risks but understand that everything always happens for a reason.

I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance.

Principally, I'll give anything a chance, only because the greatest challenges are the ones that you never see coming.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.