Daring Quotes - Page 8

• If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

  Deborah Meier

  Real, Creativity, Risk

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• If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Men, Games

  Libra pt. 2 (1988)

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• It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

  Karen Horney

  Women, Careers, Venture

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Civilization, Skills, Achievement

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

  Luigi Pulci

  Levels, Earth, Wheels

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• In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.

  Benji Durden

  Training, Eccentric, Way

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• I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.

  Elizabeth Bennett

  Risk, Prejudice, World

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• Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Long, Awkward

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• Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tired, Adventure, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• Be daring enough to be different,
  humble enough to make mistakes,
  wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love,
  real enough to make others see how phony you are.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Mistake, Humble

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.110, Multnomah

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• Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

  Propertius

  Inspirational, Winning, Might

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• Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Spinning

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.86, Canongate Books

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• The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Equality, Discovery, Cost

  "Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Yet, I wondered why Marshall did not at least attempt a kiss. In many ways, his treatment of me reminded me of the way I had behaved toward the doll that Mamma Mae had given me as a child. I favored it so that I had refused myself of the joy of playing with it, daring to love it only with my eyes. But in doing so, I had denied myself its very purpose.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Love, Children, Eye

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• Last year when "Black Swan," "True Grit" and "King's Speech" all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies. You know, and not do the same old you-know-what.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Kings, Independent, Swans

  "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 2, 2011.

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• Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Brother, Spring

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• We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.

  Zack Snyder

  Real, Character, Angel

  "Fictional character: Sweet Pea". "Sucker Punch", 2011.

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• A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the reader through Welty's long, productive writing career and introduces her family and friends along the way. The book's very readable text, its lovely use of Welty quotes, and its excellent photographs make the work a treasure. This intimate look at Eudora Welty is a welcome addition for her readers.

  William R. Ferris

  Book, Writing, Careers

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• Someone once told me not to be afraid of being afraid, because, as she said, 'Anxiety is a glimpse of your own daring.' Isn't that great? It means that part of your agitation is just excitement about what you're getting ready to accomplish. Don't sell yourself short by being so afraid of failure that you don't dare to make any mistakes. Make your mistakes and learn from them. And remember: No matter how many mistakes you make, your mother always loves you!

  Maria Shriver

  Mother, Mistake, Love You

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• We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Land, Feet, Pleasure

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• That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Arena

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• There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Air, Names

  Roger Ebert (2010). “The Great Movies III”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Moving, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

  George W. Bush

  Ready For Change, Decent, Nations

  George W. Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2000.

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