Quotes About Placing Bets

#1. True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.

Will Evans

#2. Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.

Anthony Liccione

#3. My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

Emo Philips

#4. You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

Roger Martin

#5. In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

Sol Stein

#6. Faced with an excess of beauty the mind can often only drink.

Jim Grimsley

#7. Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

Tom Peters

#8. What bends, can break.

Marty Rubin

#9. I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

Estelle Morris

#10. Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

Amanda Hearst

#11. We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice - a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.

Greg McKeown

#12. Is perception equivalent to existence?

Erica Jong

#13. Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Robert Coles

#14. You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

Charles Baxter

#15. I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

Andrew O'Hagan

#16. I can't tell you how it came to take me so many years to learn that instead of placing piking bets on what the next few quotations were going to be, my game was to anticipate what was going to happen in a big way.

Anonymous

#17. The absence of you ruined my life.

Rebecca Maizel

#18. In all the medical dramas I'd ever seen, there was always some solution, some last-minute, miraculously undiscovered remedy. Nobody ever just gave up on a patient. But it seemed like in real life, they did.

Morgan Matson