Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Hsieh

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

Mike Tyson

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.

Margaret Mitchell

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything...

Mia Farrow

Life is about losing everything, gracefully.

Jean Chretien

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

Dane Cook

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

Viola Spolin

It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Bill Nichols

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Bertrand Russell

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

Cheryl Richardson

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

Charles Lamb

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

William Shakespeare

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Al Pacino

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

David Viscott

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

Bear Grylls

Without risk, there can be no growth.

Deborah Moggach

But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

John Roberts

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.