Quotes with risk-taking

Quotes 141 till 160 of 367.

  • George Bernard Shaw If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Magnus Carlsen If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
    Magnus Carlsen
    Norwegian chess grandmaster (1990 - )
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  • Garry Kasparov If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.
    How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (2010) 96
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Ray Kroc If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Blanche Lincoln In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Blake Jenner In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the comedic timing that you get. When I moved to L.A., I started taking classes with The Groundlings, and I loved it. I'm definitely in love with improv and comedy.
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  • Bill Dedman In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Ben Carson In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Emma Goldman In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Francis Bacon In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Campbell Scott In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Sheldon Kopp In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Carl Honore In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Winston Churchill It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thorstein Veblen It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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