"The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing."

-- Joichi Ito

#Risk Quotes #Cost Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.”
“The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.”
“I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.”
“I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.”
“Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.”

Source : Lauren F. Winner (2012). “Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis”, p.9, Harper Collins
“The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.”
“Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.”
“There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.”

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