Daring Quotes - Page 9

• Why settle for so little in life when you can have so much just by daring to be different in your thinking.

  Catherine Ponder

  Thinking, Different, Littles

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• Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Challenges, Serial Killer, Killers

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• Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Beautiful, Book, Pages

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• In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them.

  Robert Anasi

  Sports, Art, Writing

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• Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

  Paul Saffo

  Mistake, Distance, Views

  "Six Rules for Effective Forecasting". "HBR IdeaCast" with Cathy Olofson, hbr.org.

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• I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Play, Noble

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• Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Wonder Love, Two, People

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• Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it loose from morality; writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Nathan Ballingrud are doing the same by prying fantasy away from pedestrian writing, with more vibrant and daring styles, more reflective thinking, and a more widely broadcast spectrum of themes.

  Michael Cisco

  Writing, Thinking, Style

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• The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

  William Hazlitt

  Silence, Say Anything, Behalf

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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• Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.67, Xist Publishing

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• One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

  Confucius

  Men, Law, Long

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• There are some decisions in life that only you can make.

  Merle Shain

  Decision

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• Don't let other people tell you who you are.

  Diane Sawyer

  People, Who You Are

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• There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

  Muhammad Ali

  People, Special, World

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• Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

  Samuel Smiles

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

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• We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims.

  James Madison

  Men, Rights, Joy

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.467

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• As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of fiery daring. Something chivalrous in him; brave as a lion; yet with a grace, a truth and affection worthy of Christian knighthood.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Brave, Grace

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• Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

  Wilferd Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Errors

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• From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.

  Purnima Mane

  Husband, Needs, Demand

  "Women Are Daring, Will You Join Them?" by Purnima Mane, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Mean, Knowing

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• Realize how good you really are.

  Og Mandino

  Realizing

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• Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Average, Community, Vision

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• You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

  Winston Churchill

  Running, War, Adversity

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Imagination, Way

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.49, Cosimo Classics

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• Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

  Ann Aguirre

  World, Weight, Lips

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