Risks Quotes
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Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.
Amy Poehler
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It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.
Ivan Krastev
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Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.
Ellis Paul Torrance
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More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.
Walter Munk
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.
Afia Nathaniel
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Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.
Sarah Parish
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The ACE study group concluded: “Although widely understood to be harmful to health, each adaptation such as smoking, drinking, drugs, obesity is notably difficult to give up. Little consideration is given to the possibility that many long-term health risks might also be personally beneficial in the short term. We repeatedly hear from patients of the benefits of these ‘health risks.’ The idea of the problem being a solution, while understandably disturbing to many, is certainly in keeping with the fact that opposing forces routinely coexist in biological systems. . . . What one sees, the presenting problem, is often only the marker for the real problem, which lies buried in time, concealed by patient shame, secrecy and sometimes amnesia—and frequently clinician discomfort.
Bessel van der Kolk
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To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.
Plutarch
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I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
Erol Alkan
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One of the general morals of this story is that if you have to take some risks, it is often better to do so as quickly as possible.
Avinash Dixit
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Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.
Judith Rodin
