Brooks Atkinson Quotes

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

Taking risk is good, and America is a country based on boldness and looking to the future.

... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

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

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

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

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

I like risk takers. They're the ones that end up changing the world.

You have to motivate people to take almost certain failure to get a small amount of success, which has driven our economy forward.

With innovation, there is always risk.

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.

Taking risks is the best thing ever, and that's what gets you anywhere.

I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning. It's a propensity for action - and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.

Pioneering don't pay.

We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.