"What you risk reveals what you value."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Risk Quotes #Literature Quotes #Take A Chance Quotes

“My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.”

Source : "'BREAKING DAWN': NEW PHOTOS AND A CHAT WITH THE DIRECTOR!". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2012.
“I know it is crazy, every time I release something now people say I am becoming more rough and tough. I guess my direction has been changing, I think this new album is a better reflection of who I am as an artist and as a person, I have changed a lot since the Boyzone days.”
“We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'”
“The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That's why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.”

Source : "From Big Data to Deep Data" by Otto Scharmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.
“The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.”

Source : 1822 The Night Before Christmas.
“Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.”
“The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.”
“Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.”

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