Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

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.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

I like new challenges and new experiences.

That's like the greatest experiences of my life still, 'Friends,' so it's not something I want to get away from, but I do want to try and show something new.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

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

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

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

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.