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Letter "R" » Risk-taking
«I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.»
«If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Opinions,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
no-good
«If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.»
Author: John W. Holt, Jr.
| About:
Competition,
Learning,
Mistakes,
Risk-taking,
Winning
| Keywords:
competition, competitions, faster, risks
«He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.»
Author: Paul Tillich
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Failure,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
fails, forgiven, risks
«If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure»
«Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Joy,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
adding, boundary, boundary line, conquering, difficulty, give back, Give Me Liberty, line, one line, pushing, push back
«Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| About:
Creativity,
Exploration,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
at risk, climbs, explore, lane, lanes, territories, village
«Go out on a limb. That?s where the fruit is.»
«It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.»
«If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Adventure,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
aged, beard, depressed, faded, fatalistic, goat, no doubt, plucking, precipices, The Wild, trembling, wild goat
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