"What you risk reveals what you value." Jeanette Winterson

"Monotony is the awful reward of the careful." A. G. Buckham

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything." Geena Davis

"There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value." Jeanette Winterson

"There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book."
 Stephen King

"I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me." Banksy, street artist (b. 1974)

"You have to make the leap and jump on at any point because any point is better than not making the leap at all." Tom Denney

"Given an equal amount of intelligence, timidity will cause a thousand times more problems than audacity." Carl von Clausewitz

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall." Ray Bradbury

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988)

"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything . . . or nothing." Lady Astor

"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose." Thomas Szasz

“Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.” David Lloyd George

“There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.” John C. Collins

“Age gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.” Will Barnet

“The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor.” Unknown

“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something creative to do with my life. I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.” Miles Davis

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” Helen Keller

“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” Ray Bradbury

"Leap and the net will appear." Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way

“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can get without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.” Kurt Vonnegut

“The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.” Peter McWilliams

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

“Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” Cardinal Newman