Chance And Risk Quotes - Page 3

• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

  Herodotus

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 50, c. 440 BC.

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• Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suicide, Men, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.142, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Inspirational, Life, Women

  "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics". "The Village Voice" Magazine, 1983.

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• The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

  Donnie Burns

  Dance, Mean, Cutting

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• To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.

  Anthony Giddens

  Fate, Destiny, Play

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Careers, Risk, Ambitious

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

  Erykah Badu

  Fashion, Art, Risk

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