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A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 147
- Honor
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
Ben Carsonborn 1951Take The Risk (2008), p. 58
- Advice
We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Interview about the release of the Macintosh (24 January 1984)—(online video)
- Business
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller1891–1980The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 14, p. 339
Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am… only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.
Che Guevara1928–1967Last Letter to his Parents (1965)
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Fooled by Randomness (2001)
- Failure
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Player Piano (1952), Chapter 9 (p. 86)
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Pygmalion (1912), Act II, spoken by HigginsIn context
- Life & Death
The unforeseen does not exist
Jules Verne1828–1905Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter IIIIn context
A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager
Jules Verne1828–1905Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter IIIIn context
Life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book II, Chapter XXIIn context
- Life & Death
O, the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597), Act I, Scene III, spoken by HotspurIn context
- Courage
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597), Act II, Scene III, spoken by HotspurIn context