Taking Risks Quotes - Page 8

• Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Military, Optimistic, Average

  "Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Part 1): Daniel Kahneman". www.bloomberg.com. October 25, 2011.

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• I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Interesting, Risk

  "Matt Smith and Karen Gillan Interview DOCTOR WHO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2011.

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• Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

  Mitt Romney

  Dream, Jobs, Apples

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I think you make impacts by taking risks.

  Shenae Grimes

  Thinking, Impact, Risk

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• I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

  Drake

  Risk, Care, Should

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• Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.

  Adam Lambert

  Risk, Want, Life Is

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• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  David Soul

  Doors, Personality, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we stop taking risks, we stop living.

  Robin Sharma

  Risk

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2016

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• People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, Believe, Taken

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• At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Heart, Writing, Issues

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• Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.

  Craig Groeschel

  Risk

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• You can't lead without taking risk.

  Andy Stanley

  Risk

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.56, Multnomah

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• To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

  Brad Bird

  Mean, Ideas, Interesting

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• The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

  Mike Nichols

  Essence, Play, Differences

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• But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘ By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soulmate, Disappointment, Long

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• There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

  Elon Musk

  Risk, Trying, Covering

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Sexy, Morning, Night

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• An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

  JR

  Artist, Ideas, Risk

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• Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Business, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.

  Amy Poehler

  Risk, Comfort, Life Is

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• We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.

  Amy Poehler

  Mistake, Decision, Choices

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• Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

  Rick Warren

  Advice, Risk, Age

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 11, 2013

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• The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Risk, Irony

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Risk, Blame

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

  Eric Ries

  Country, Jobs, America

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