"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"

Risk, Risk-Taking

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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"

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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"

Veronica Roth, American Author

Risk, Desperation, Decision, Mistake, Emotion

"In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Risk, Decision, Curiosity, Spontaneity

"I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

Risk, Finance, Distance, Impact

"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Risk, Dream, Courage, Opportunity

"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Risk, Gain, World, Experience

"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Risk, Cleanliness, Trouble, Action

"Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it."

Gina Greenlee, American Author

Risk, Trust, Creation, Change

"What you risk reveals what you value."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Risk, Value

"Accidents are built into the road."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Risk, Accident, Chance, Danger

"And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded."

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Risk, Action, Consequence, Violence

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"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."

Animals

"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."

Marriage

"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."

Exploration

"I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people."

People

"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."

Man

"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."

Death

"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."

Lie

"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."

Exploration

"Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love."

Love

"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."

Friendship