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• I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

  Paul Krugman

  Thinking, Yield, Ideas

  "Ask the Author Live: Larissa MacFarquhar with Paul Krugman". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

  Daniel Handler

  Silly, Thinking, People

  "Lemony Snicket on the mindless pleasure of Law & Order, and how to solve each case". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. September 29, 2015.

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• There is no greatness without taking risks.

  Suzanne Yoculan

  Gymnastics, Greatness, Risk

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• Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.

  Ryan Eggold

  Risk, Reaching

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• I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Safety, Work Out, Risk

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.

  Bob Weir

  Live Life, Adventure, People

  Source: medium.com

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• You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge - not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Teacher, Team, Mean

  "BRIDGING TV & THEATRE: Sharon Lawrence & DROP DEAD DIVA". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. August 7, 2011.

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• I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Fall, Writing

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• You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.

  Hilary Swank

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Thinking, People

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• Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

  Alan Arkin

  Fall, Thinking, Risk

  Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Risk, Roles, Decided

  "Five Feet of Heaven in a Ponytail", by Simon Banner. Premiere Magazine (UK), p. 26-29, July 1993.

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• Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

  Kate Voegele

  Believe, Artist, Long

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 05, 2011.

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• To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

  Rick Welts

  Powerful, Organization, Leader

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• An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Mistake, Organization

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

  David Nevins

  Ambition, Simple, Swinging For The Fences

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• I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

  Werner Herzog

  Risk, Alive, Cautious

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

  Gary Hamel

  Risk, Important, Today

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• What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.

  Casey Abrams

  Risk

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• Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

  Doug Scott

  Commitment, Climbing, Weather

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• I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

  Melanie Laurent

  Thinking, Risk

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• There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

  Sissy Spacek

  Kings, Fun, Real

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!

  Richard Branson

  Running, Brave, Forever

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• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Agency, Years

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• To quit taking risks is a serious risk!

  Donald Keough

  Risk, Serious, Quitting

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