Corey Taylor Quotes

Risk is an essential part of progress.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

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

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

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.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

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

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

Nothing changes if we keep playing it safe.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.

I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.