Cynthia Heimel Quotes

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

You can't be afraid to play. Commit to play and you live with the results.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

When in doubt, sing loud.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

I didn't think; I experimented.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.