#risks

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#about #big #generally #make #mistakes

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail. ↗

— Ed Koch

#afghanistan #also #being #buddha #clinton

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq. ↗

— Caspar Weinberger

#america #being #country #demonstrate #did

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#death #existential-risks #fear #death

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go. ↗

— Justina Chen

#certainty #fear #risks #taking-chances #art

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#done #expected #foolhardy #had #i

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other. ↗

— Alex Noble

#between #beyond #care #each #energy

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope. ↗

— Barack Obama

#casualty #escalation #libya #limited #operation

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. ↗

— David R. Brower

#door #economy #expose #horrifying #once

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#am #challenge #comes #completely #consequences