Leonard Maltin Quotes

I'm a simple man; I like to stick to what I know.

I think we stick with what we know.

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering preferring a certain present to an uncertain future/

The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.

They all overvalued the importance of stability.

I'm the least-experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that's never really interested me.

I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

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.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.

It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.

Instead of embracing change, the E.U.'s precautionary principle has held back progress.