Gamble Quotes - Page 10

• What is life if not a gamble?

  F.E. Higgins

  What Is Life, Ifs

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• Here’s how to know if you have the makeup to be an investor. How would you handle the following situation? Let’s say you own a Procter & Gamble in your portfolio and the stock price goes down by half. Do you like it better? If it falls in half, do you reinvest dividends? Do you take cash out of savings to buy more? If you have the confidence to do that, then you’re an investor. If you don’t, you’re not an investor, you’re a speculator, and you shouldn’t be in the stock market in the first place.

  Seth Klarman

  Fall, Makeup, Saving

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• When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

  Charles Bukowski

  Worry, Doubt, Delight

  "Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Battle, Life Is, Painful

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• Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

  Roger Zelazny

  Crazy, Stupid, Writing

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• If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

  Don DeLillo

  Vanity, Knows, Ifs

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.239, Pan Macmillan

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• Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fun, Winning, Humanness Is

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.73, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend the primary fantasy in the defiance, and avoid the real gamble or real adventure of taking a chance on something new. They are afraid that if they really cry out, if they really ask, if they really scream for help, that it won't come, and they'll be in the same panicky frightened state they were in when they were little.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Fear, Real, Adventure

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• In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

  Keith Sweat

  Creating, Trying, Branches

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• In many ways, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been saying that and more for many years. He's said you don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. But only a few dozen people were lined up outside the Apple Store in San Francisco. That's nothing compared to the hundreds and thousands that line up for new products. Cook is taking a gamble here.

  Laura Sydell

  Years, Apples, San Francisco

  "How Tim Cook's Stand Over Digital Privacy Could Define Apple's Future". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Believe, Ignorance, Thinking

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• Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britain’s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble to set this up as a measure of success. Protecting the credit rating will not be easy The pace of fiscal consolidation will be co-ordinated with monetary policy. And we will protect Britain's credit rating and international reputation.

  George Osborne

  Cutting, Political, Pace

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• A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Loss, Would Be, Accepting

  Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky (2000). “Choices, Values, and Frames”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.768, Ballantine Books

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• It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

  Rick Yancey

  Home, People, Humanity

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.134, Penguin

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• And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Laughter, Crazy, Eye

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• Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.

  Verner Panton

  Decision, Conscious, Should

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• What's the best gamble in the world, right now? Its betting that Deutsche Bank stock is going to go down. Short sellers borrowed money from their banks to place bets that Deutsche Bank stock is going to go down. Now, it's wringing its hands and saying, "Oh the speculators are killing us." But it's Deutsche Bank and the other banks that are providing the money to the speculators to bet on credit.

  Michael Hudson

  Hands, Credit, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

  Carrie Fisher

  Attitude, Crazy, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Democrats, the mainstream media, Hollywood elites are so out of touch when it comes to keeping you, the American people, safe from radical Islamic terrorism, and they are willing to gamble with your life.

  Sean Hannity

  Islamic, Media, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The IMF insisted that both Russia and Brazil maintain their currency at over-valued levels. Who are you protecting when you try to maintain that exchange rate by having high interest rates? You're protecting domestic and foreign firms that have gambled on the exchange rate. And who is paying the price? The small businesses that did not gamble [and no longer can afford loans], the workers who are going to be put out of jobs.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Jobs, Russia, Trying

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the vulnerable sense. And then outside of that, no one gets too hurt by it.

  Emma Stone

  Hurt, Fun, Creative

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

  Rumi

  Gathering, Half, Majesty

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• Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Helping, Get Money

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• We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Source: bukowski.net

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