#risk

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#culture #huge #risks #totalitarian #without

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#chinese #climbing #columbus #down #enter

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

— Maimonides

#indecision #preferable #risk #terror #wrong

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. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#bet #better #between #calculated #calculated risk

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#bet #better #between #calculated #calculated risk

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. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#anything #care #earth #face #hardest

Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#going #homework #image #kind #person

You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#i #lot #me #never #risks

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#day #end #end of the day #might #risk

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#benefits #few #only #reap #rest