Venturing Quotes

I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

Living is risking.

For me, I have never walked a path that has been carefully crafted or charted. I have gone into territory unknown on many an occasion.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

Somebody has to try it.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

I break ground. I trailblaze.

People go out; they take risk; they find a way to develop resources that were previously not accessible, not available because of technological reasons.

It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.

Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

I want to be in places I've never been before.

I like to find adventure.

I like to explore things.