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«Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, act, bet, betting, bet on, calculated, calculating, difference, ideas, I Bet You, more often than not, risk, successful, you bet
«I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.»
Author: Erica Jong
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
calculated, calculating, expresses, humorously, invented, in style, lustily, style, writing style
«Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.»
Author: John Goodwin
| Keywords:
artistic, calculated, calculating, decision, instinct, theater, theaters
«Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| About:
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, bet, bet on, calculated, calculating
«I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.»
Author: Aneurin Bevan
(Politician)
| Keywords:
calculating, calculating machine, desiccated, desiccates, labour, Labour Party, political leader, political machine, the Labour Party
«Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.»
«Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| About:
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
calculated, calculating, rash, risks
«Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
adopt, calculated, calculating, carry, coercive, execution, executions, for good measure, intervention, interventions, measures, taught
«No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
accurate, age, calculating, looks, quite
«Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
calculating, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, madam
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