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"In any
given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step
back into safety.
-- Abraham Maslow The Two
Things about Medicine:
1. Do no harm.
2. To do any good, you must risk doing harm.
-- Medical Doctor "It takes a lot of courage to
release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there
is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more
security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life,
and in change there is power.
---Alan Cohen "And the day came when the risk
to remain a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-- Anais Nin "Live to be in the
present. Safety, security, knowing and being right are all synonyms for
death."
-- Cheri Huber "Twenty years from
now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by
the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
--Mark Twain "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole
experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
-- Helen Keller
"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each
one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
-- Harold W. Dodds
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do
the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure,
or nothing."
-- Helen Keller
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an
insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers
the folly of the chase."
-- William Congreve
"Shun security."
-- Thales Of Miletos
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They
seem more afraid of life than death."
-- James F. Byrnes
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Security is a kind of death."
-- Tennessee Williams
"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity."
-- General Douglas MacArthur
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an
insipid thing."
-- William Congreve
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The
only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of
knowledge, experience, and ability."
-- Henry Ford
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true
security to be found."
-- Ann Morrow Lindberg
"Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be
secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which
can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad."
-- B. E. Hutchinson
==================== "I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
-- Frank Herbert, Dune, Litany against Fear, p. 19
"Believe me!
The secret of reaping the greatest
enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Take risks:
if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise."
-- Author Unknown
"Man must exist in a state of balance between risk and safety. Pure
risk leads to self-destruction. Pure safety leads to stagnation. In
between lies survival and progress."
-- Unknown
"Risk is at the heart of all education."
-- Willi Unsoeld
"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and
less willing to risk failure."
-- John W. Gardener
"It is not because things are dangerous that we do not dare.
It is because we do dare not that things are dangerous."
-- Seneca
"Although generalizations are dangerous, I venture to say that at the
bottom of most fears, both mild and severe, will be found an overactive
mind and an underactive body. Hence, I have advised many people, in their
quest for happiness to use their heads less and their arms and legs
more-in useful work or play. We generate fears while we sit; we overcome
them by action. Fear is nature's warning to get busy."
-- Henry Link
"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."
-- Douglas Macarthur
"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to
you; security is the denial of life."
-- Germaine Greer, 1970
"Safety is understanding, it is an attitude of mind – it is not
necessarily a simply following of rules or directions."
-- Garry Richards, "Safety vs. Challenge", 1978
"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-- Wayne Gretzky
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