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Risk-taking
«Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, act, bet, betting, bet on, calculated, calculating, difference, ideas, I Bet You, more often than not, risk, successful, you bet
«Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.»
Author: Philip Andrew Adams
| About:
Confidence,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
extraordinary, front, in front, risks, sit, sit in, telly, treat
«Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Inspirational,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
find out, possibly
«People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.»
«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Life,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
crowded, decorum, observances, one hour, paltry, to the full
«It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Life,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
one hour, persons, risking
«It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Living,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
beforehand, one hour, risking, uncertified