Elaine May Quotes

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

In life you need to take a risk.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

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.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

To be successful, one must take chances.

Sometimes you have to take a risk if you want great things to happen.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.

It's important to take risks.

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.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

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.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

I think it's important to take chances.

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.