Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

People get so scared to try things.

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Every journey starts with fear.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.