On The Edge

This is a picture of me standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon, about 150 feet past the security fence out on a ledge. I have never had more fun. This morning, while dancing dangerously close to the edge (in life) I came across some thoughts and new perspectives that added some fuel to the fire and some thump to the soundtrack:

If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.—Anonymous





Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.--David Lloyd George

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.--Soren Kierkegaard

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.--Mignon McLaughlin


God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.--Max Lucado

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.--Erica Jong

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.--Brian Tracy

Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.--Eliot Wiggington

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never get far from the shore.--Dale Carnegie

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.--Harry Gray

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.--Samuel Johnson

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or idea, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk--and to act.--Maxwell Maltz


Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your feet on first.--Frederick Wilcox

Revolutionaries don't get job security.--Ruby Dee

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.--Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.--Pierre Corneille

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.--James F. Byrnes

What you risk reveals what you value.--Jeanette Winterson

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.--Tim McMahon

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.--Will Rogers