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Letter "R" » risk
«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
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Historian,
Novelist,
Statesman)
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About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
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Keywords:
abilities,
act,
bet,
betting,
bet on,
calculated,
calculating,
difference,
ideas,
I Bet You,
more often than not,
risk,
successful,
you bet
«Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(
Author,
Speaker)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
at all,
at all costs,
at risk,
avoid,
big,
costing,
costs,
doing,
doing nothing,
inherently,
risk,
risked,
riskiest,
risking,
risky,
should
«Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.»
«Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.»
Author: Erica Jong
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
being brave,
brave,
braver,
Braves,
braving,
cracked,
cracking,
crack up,
cynical,
fighting,
really,
risk,
risking,
trouble,
up to,
why,
worth
«One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.»
«Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.»
Author: Katherine Mansfield
(
Writer)
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About:
Action,
Risk,
Risk-taking,
Truth
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Keywords:
act,
care,
earth,
face,
hardest,
no more,
on earth,
opinions,
risk,
The Truth,
voiced,
voices,
voice over
«Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.»
«Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.»
«It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.»
Author: Voltaire
(
Philosopher,
Writer)
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Keywords:
condemn,
condemning,
guiltier,
guilty,
He Is Guilty,
innocent,
innocents,
innocent of,
risk,
saving
«One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
dare,
dives,
diving,
drowning,
eagerly,
present,
risk,
save,
The Water,
water