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There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that. -- Wesley Morris
The 'Amazing' can only be created by facing fear, risk and failure during the process. -- Joel Brown
You need to accept your yesterday, so u can be happy on your today, risk and failures will always be there, and so is success. -- Candy bustillo
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. -- Gail Sheehy
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. -- Carol Alt
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. -- Dee Dee Myers
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. -- John W. Gardner
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. -- Paul Tillich
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. -- Peter Barris
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation. -- Burt Rutan
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. -- Henry Paulson
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. -- Jeremy Irons
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
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. -- Maxwell Maltz
I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do. -- Spike Jonze
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
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures. -- Bob McNair
Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic. -- Ben Bernanke
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business. -- David Walliams
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things. -- Peter Morgan
Growth always involves the risk of failure. -- Howard Thurman
The only risk of failure is promotion. -- Scott Adams
No failure means no risk, which means nothing new -- Richard Branson
You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure -- Raymond E. Feist
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk. -- Brennan Manning
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. -- Dan Quayle
If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. -- George W. Bush
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. -- Dan Quayle
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. -- Dan Quayle
I would rather risk failure than achieve it without risk. -- Millard Johnson
Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure. -- Winston Churchill
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. -- Jim McMahon
If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure. -- Garry Kasparov
Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway. -- Ilona Andrews
The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do. -- Paul Simon
The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. -- John Wooden
You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure. -- Dean Karnazes
At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve. -- Buzz Aldrin
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure. -- Sydney J. Harris
When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear. -- Ernest Sosa
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything. -- Thomas Merton
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. -- Ferran Adria
We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. -- Rick Perry
Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure. -- George Leonard
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure. -- Richard Marcinko
We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. -- Sunday Adelaja
You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure. -- Paul Heyman
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Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure. -- Max Anders
Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. -- Demi Moore
The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line. -- Oscar Isaac
There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act. -- Harry S. Truman
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. -- Lisa Anderson
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You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. -- Dr. An Wang
Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned. -- Garth Brooks
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. -- Dr. An Wang
Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives. -- Brennan Manning
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too. -- Steve Jobs
True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it. -- William J. Clinton
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In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking. -- Ben Bernanke
I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved. -- Marina Keegan
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. -- Rosalynn Carter
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. -- Maxwell Maltz
Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure. -- Reg Revans
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. -- B. C. Forbes
A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure. -- Daniel Kahneman
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century. -- Nicholas Stern
What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions. -- Alfred Adler
It takes faith and the courage to risk failure in order to realize one's destiny. Having had my share of failures throughout my career I know that it is well worth the risk. -- Ryan Hall
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. -- Philip Pullman

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