#risk

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#does #love #oneself #opening #risk

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#disclose #even #high #human #more

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#believing #better #critique #himself #his

I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#been #comes #especially #fashion #i

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.' ↗

— Mitch Albom

#book #chapter #characters #get #going

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#critic #entailed #generalized #him #impossible

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#ask #bend #books #characters #determines

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#audience #better #confuse #five #gamble

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people. ↗

— Kenneth Anger

#changing #firm #i #lawyer #legal