A Quote by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American - Composer
Born: April 30, 1939

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

William Arthur Ward

To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing.

Rene Carayol

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

Brian Reitzell

Oh, and one more thing: If I try something that I've never done before, something that's particularly difficult for me, and it doesn't work out, that doesn't make it a failure. The fact that I actually succeeded in finishing it makes it a huge success. Think of all the people who never even try.

SebastiAn

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

Mark Lanegan

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

Cate Blanchett

My advice is try something you've never done before or maybe something that's not as popular.

Michelle Carter

At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

Pete Seeger

The risk of working with people you don't respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are incosistent with your own; the risk of compromising what's important; the risk of doing something that fails to express-or even contradicts--who you are. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all--the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Randy Komisar

You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away.

Robyn

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

Eric Balfour

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

Marcel Carne

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.