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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Risk

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
A man sits as many risks as he runs.
A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out
All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
All serious daring starts from within.
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.
Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.
Dare to be wise.
-- Motto | Risk
Daring is not safe against daring men.
-- Ovid | Risk
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.
During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Educated risks are the key to success.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
-- Ovid | Risk
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.
If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.
If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.
-- Aesop | Risk
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.
It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.
Never tell me the odds.
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.
Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.