Frances Mayes Quotes

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

In life you need to take a risk.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

You never know what the future brings.

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

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 new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

Every day is another something that comes along.

It's a crazy game. It's a game we all choose to play.

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

Life is all about the unexpected.

It is the beauty and curse of this industry that you never know what is around the corner.

Who knows what the heck the future will bring.

You never know what next week brings.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

It's always a surprise! This business is always an adventure.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.