Preparation

Fear is a signal you're near something real, so don't retreat, engineer.

You don't half do a thing. I put on sixty pounds for LaMotta, drove a real cab for months.

Bet on it, but bet the Knope way, which means outworking the risk until it surrenders!

Play the player, and the player here is you. A bold idea with no preparation is just a blunder that hasn't happened yet.

Neither. That's a false choice. You don't bet or play safe, you prepare until the bet stops being a gamble.

Preparation is the answer, not caution. I bet everything on one idea once, a symbol, and I spent years training before the first…

What, like it's hard? Betting on yourself is not reckless if you do the reading first.

Honestly, this is not a coin flip, it is a research question you have not done the reading for yet.

No fate but what we make. That includes yours, so stop asking permission from the odds.

Well, I'm the wrong person to ask about safety. I got a job in the theatre and married a sculptor, which is two of the least safe…