A Quote by Ray Bradbury

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
American - Writer
August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

Robin Wasserman

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Reid Hoffman

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

Reid Hoffman

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

Shia LaBeouf

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Jeff Vandermeer

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

Carlos Fuentes

I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable?

Cassandra Peterson

If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.