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Risk Quotes
"Hey, you know that thing Dostoyevesky wrote on gambling? It's like that. When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up."
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"Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk."
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"Have to Find...life...is...a-...gamble...after ...all."
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"Lust and flirting are dangerous because at first they are not noticeable."
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"Am I more afraidOf taking a chance andlearning I'm somebodyI don't know, or of risking new territory,only to find I'm the sameold me? There is comfortin the tried and true.Breaking groundmight uncover a sinkhole,one impossible to climb outof. And setting sail inuncharted watersmight mean capsizing intoa sea monster's jaws.Easier to turn my back onthese thingsthan to try tjem and fail.And yet, a whisper insistsI need to know if they are oraren't integral to me.Status quo is a swamp.And stagnation is slow death."
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"Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky."
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"We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."
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"My mother overstated the dangers of the world " invented threats. And so I saw: Starbursts' hoof-made gelatin never gave me mad cow. Mad cow was not a threat to me. And so I thought: most risks weren't truly real."
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"Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them."
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"You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!"
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"The biggest problem which is ever than is from the parents by saying "Don't give your money to the kids" or something like this. People must learn to risk, to make risks, not to be people which to play safety. If it is safety where is adrenaline? Where is the mess?? Where is the curiosity?? Where is the reward after all done??Where are the challanges which change your way of thinking?? Where are the lessons???Parents should teach their child or children about safety and about the risk. "They must say to them that to make risk is the part of the proccess!"
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"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"
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"Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances."
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"The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do."
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"If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land."
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"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."
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"If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear."
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"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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"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."
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"The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk."
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"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."
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"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."
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"It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life."
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"Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes."
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"You can't fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly."
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"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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"For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it."
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