Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

Baltasar Gracian

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• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Risk
  • Establishment
  • Salad

• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Government
  • Risk

• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Risk

• The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Hope
  • Risk

• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Holocaust

• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Believe
  • Risk
  • Thought

• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Risk
  • Neighbor

• I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Risk

• Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Habit

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Soldiers

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Country
  • Risk

• You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • You
  • Risk
  • Director

• I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Play
  • Losing

• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Risk

• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

  

  Maimonides
  • Decision
  • Risk
  • Chance

• There is some risk that if the wrong regulatory regime gets adopted in the U.S., then the center of innovation could move to other countries. If blockchains are the next Internet, that would be a very unfortunate development for the U.S.

  

  David O. Sacks
  • Risk
  • Innovation

• We urgently need more due process with the algorithmic systems influencing our lives. If you are given a score that jeopardizes your ability to get a job, housing, or education, you should have the right to see that data, know how it was generated, and be able to correct errors and contest the decision.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Job
  • Education
  • Decision

• Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Risk
  • Losing
  • Novelty