Dan O'Brien Quotes

Sometimes you don't know what is it you want to do until you try it.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

I feel like if you can do multiple things, you shouldn't shy away from them.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side.

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?

When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.

I want to try new things and just see what's out there.