Nick Nurse Quotes

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

I think that people are so insecure in their jobs, they're so uncertain that the people they work for really care about them, they're so uncertain about what their kids are looking at in the future, that people are reluctant to take any risks for change.

Phoenix Nights' was really starting to take off. But I was scared to leave my job in case things didn't work out.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?