Evan Davis Quotes

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

I always say if you're not failing, you're not trying.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

If you don't fail, you haven't tried hard enough.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?

We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

I don't like doing things that are easy!

I've chosen opportunities where I might fail rather than live in the shadow of my own potential.

If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

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.

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.

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.