Seth Godin Quotes

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

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

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

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

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

I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

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

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.