"Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway."

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Source : Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.80, Penguin

Ilona Andrews

#Risk Quotes #Trying Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.”
“I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.”

Source : Talk at MS Research, November 2004.
“Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just...try.”
“But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working”
“You donâ€™t drive races on paper.”
“Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.”
“For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.”
“The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.”

Source : Marlo Morgan (2009). “Mutant Message Down Under”, p.8, Harper Collins

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