I'm not afraid of flying; I just fear I'm going to die. I think I'm - vulnerable. I admit it. I don't fly. I got claustrophobia. I don't go in high buildings. I don't do those things. I'm just myself, whatever that is.
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.
The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.
The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.
I don't want to go out there and show up. I hate losing. Everybody hates losing. But I hate losing.
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?
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
The worship of safety emasculates greatness.
The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
I'm pretty conservative on a lot of things. I don't want to get hurt.
it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
