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"In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life."
"We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good."
"The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others."
"I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks."
"I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion."
"Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable."
"I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking."
"To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours."
"Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by."
"The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward."
"We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity."
"If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments."
"The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’"
"This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure."
"We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time."
"For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia]."
"Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk."
"You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life."
"That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want."
"Before you'll change, something important must be at risk."
