Quotes About Gamble

Games are all about taking risks.

The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.

I think with 'Tangerine' we were taking that gamble - it was a risk - that we could tell the story in a comedic fashion to attract an audience and shed light on an issue.

Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Sometimes, however, it is better to take risks and play the most capricious, unpredictable move.

Kau tak tahu apa-apa soal keberanian. Untuk menjadi berani, harus ada yang dipertaruhkan. Aku datang tanpa mempertaruhkan apa pun.

We mortals daily take chances with our lives, because we know they are going to end anyhow. So we go on treks in the Himalayas, swim in the sea, and do many other dangerous things like crossing the street or eating out. But if you believe you can live forever, you would be crazy to gamble on infinity like that.

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -- you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery-some things are too precious to gamble.

A very risky gamble.

I guess that's what happens," Jameson said, his eyes never leaving mine as his lips curled upward, "when you take a very risky gamble.

Een zeer riskante gok.

He brought his hands to the side my face, then the back of my neck, and I felt his touch through every square inch of my body. "I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery - some things are too precious to gamble.

If you don't risk anything, you risk more

Y el problema es que si no arriesgas nada, arriesgas aún más.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

Predictions are a mug's game.

I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

People say I take too many risks. But the fact is, there is risk involved in every shot. You can get out trying to defend a ball as well.

Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well.