"Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes."

-- Robert S. Kaplan

#Opportunity Quotes #Risk Quotes #Negative Quotes

“Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.”

Source : Peter Deunov (2004). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.110, Health Communications, Inc.
“The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flowâ€¦”
“You can’t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them.”
“Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.”
“A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.”
“One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book.”
“It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.”
“When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear that some guy next to me is writing this amazing novel, so I got to compete.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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