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Quotes About Risk

La vie se rétracte ou se dilate à proportion de notre courage
~ Anais Nin
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
~ Anais Nin
So bewies mir das Wagnis, dass es nicht zerstörerisch ist, wenn wir unser Innerstes aufs Spiel setzen, wenn wir unseren verborgenen und echten Kern anbieten. Wie können nicht zerstört werden.
~ Anais Nin
Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.
~ Anatoli Boukreev
Think of it as a blind date. All you initially have in common at the bottom is the reason you're there, the top of the mountain.
~ Anatoli Boukreev
I have climbed mountains for more than twenty-five years, and only once on an assault of an 8,000er did I ever use it. Never has it been a problem for me, and Scott approved my climbing without it.
~ Anatoli Boukreev
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
~ Andre Gide
El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.
~ Andre Gide
We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.
~ Andre Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore
~ Andre Gide
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~ Andre Gide
Die Unannehmlichkeiten an einer allzugut vorbereiteten Reise ist, dass das Abenteuer darin nicht genügend Raum hat
~ Andre Gide
C'est souvent lorsqu'elle est le plus désagréable à entendre qu'une vérité est le plus utile à dire, et lorsqu'elle risque de rencontrer l'opposition la plus vive. Mais il y a souvent péril à ne point souffler dans le sens du vent.
~ Andre Gide
La peur du ridicule obtient de nous les pires lâchetés
~ Andre Gide
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
~ Andre Malraux
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
~ Andre Agassi
In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~ Andre Gide
He should have told Vlad that in the old days a collection of poems could change your life, but a single poem could also cost the life of its author.
~ Andreï Makine
Instead, statins artificially lower the level of cholesterol in
~ Andreas Moritz
Si alguien intenta llegar a ser director de cine, está arriesgando su vida entera, y él es el único responsable de ese riesgo
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
True artistic inspiration is always a torment for the artist, almost to the point of endangering his life. Its realisation is tantamount to a physical feat.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
I was committing the most amateurish of errors—escalating my wagers in an attempt to get even—but
~ Andrew Beyer
Boulton sold the estate which had come to him by his wife, and the greater part of his father's property, and mortgaged the remainder. It is evident that the great captain had taken in hand far too many enterprises. Probably he had not heard the new doctrine: Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Pioneering don't pay.
~ Andrew Carnegie