Mae West Quotes

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma do that, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen.' And a lot of stuff don't go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That's how I compare chess to life.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

I find it very hard to make choices.

Even now, when people ask me, 'Why did you take the job at Uber?' I say because my gut told me to.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

It's important to take leaps of faith.

When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

I've worked with directors who have done it too much, particularly in television, you know, 'okay we got it, let's move on, next setup.' 'Well what about, we could maybe investigate?' 'Mmm… no, let's go.'

Sometimes in football you have to take risks.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. I always wanted to pursue either music or comics, so when the opportunity came from comics publisher Fantagraphics for my brothers Jaime and Mario and I to make a comic book together, we jumped at the chance: "Let's just do it and see what happens." Really, we weren't sure where we were going to go with it. We thought our work was good enough to be out there, but we didn't know that the response was going to be pretty good, pretty quick.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.