#risk

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Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.


Charles Stanley


#begins #cause #confidence #creates #downward

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.


Levi Strauss


#back #been #bring #days #india

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.


Kurt Student


#after #apart #arrange #british #could

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.


Cass Sunstein


#century #healthier #law #lives #longer

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.


John Sununu


#authenticity #candidate #conviction #convincing #core

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.


John Sununu


#away #consequences #focused #go #go away

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.


Julie Taymor


#challenge #failing #i #interesting #really

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.


John Tesh


#being #being honest #biggest #everything #faith

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.


John Tesh


#people #pray #put #risks #take

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.


John Tesh


#because #buy #good #great #next