Bill Griffith Quotes

You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

I've always been quite careful about what I wanted to do. I've just never wanted to revisit old ground or do something that's easy. I want to do something that I would look at and go, "I don't know what to do!" The most exciting thing is when you're a bit scared, so I'm looking to find something that's really terrifying.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

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.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

Live dangerously and you live right.

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.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail.

I like stepping out of my comfort zone.

I like walking on the edge.

Life is too short not to experiment.