Jenny Holzer Quotes

I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it be?' But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.

I'm just stupid and too headstrong.

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

The measures have not yet been devised which can permanently protect men from their folly.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Our biggest risk is ourselves.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.