“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.” IfsKnowsWorldTryingMayOrderSocialForeverVirtueRiskConditionsEmotionalDutyGoes OnFitNormalAmbitionIntellectualCapacitySexualityRevolutionaryStereotypeFemininityBondageFullnessPerversionAlterationsConstrainSocial Conditions Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.” TryingHardSimpleRiskAmbitionExpectedStorytellingProgrammingFenceTaking RisksSwinging For The Fences Author:David Nevins
“The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.” WorldImportantStatesGovernmentJobsUnitedUnited StatesVirtueRiskDisciplineSkillsAmbitionValuableWillingnessElsewhereWorld HistoryMobileDiligenceCredentials Author:George Gilder
“Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.” WantChoicesFailingRiskAmbitionComfortableBored Author:Steve Coogan
“Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.” WantGivingFeelsMeanJobsLeftGrowsSidesMy OwnRiskFootballInvolvedAmbitionDaughterMy FamilyCoachesMy DaughterMy Own LifeI Love Football Author:Emmanuel Petit
“Because of the financial crash, we've lost trust in these big businesses that were led by a linear ambition to reach the top by risk - and invariably led by men. And so I think all the stuff that was seen as great "behaviour" will not be in the future, which I'm really pleased about.” ThinkingMenBigsLostStuffRiskAmbitionFinancialCrashBehaviourLinearBig BusinessLost Trust Author:Mary Portas
“Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.” WantHumansTurnsDifficultStruggleRiskEgoAmbitionRadicalVulnerabilityBoredomLure Author:C.E. Morgan
“Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.” MenEnoughRiskFeetAchievementAmbitionGasGapsPedalsAchievement Gap Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” ActionSufferingCoursesActingMistakeImpossibleRiskDangerGreatnessAmbitionMaking MistakesAvoidingPrudenceSlothCalculating Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future” PastFallFightingEasySimpleAnswersAcceptingStepsPathRiskEasierAmbitionComfortableBeatsGainsAffairFamiliarJudgementInternalsMarchApprovalControversySlogansNeighbourDrummerFrictionPublic Affairs Author:Daniel Webster
“Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.” RiskWillingAmbitionDamageDisorderLawlessness Book:Graceling Source: Graceling
“I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.” ScienceOrderChanceFailingRiskAchieveReadyFailureAmbitionExcitementTake A Chance Author:Raymond Loewy
“It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to take a few risks and make those dreams a reality. You'll be glad you did.” FirstsDreamBigsRealityRealizingStepsRiskAmbitionLateGladToo LateDaringFirst StepsStarting OverNever Too Late Author:Donald MacRae
“Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man accepted the dangers, the element of chance. If he didn't, he won nothing.” IfsMenCoursesChanceRiskDangerElementsAmbitionAcceptedDelay Book:Homeland Source: Homeland
“The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.” WellsJobsSpiritRiskEconomicPolicyMaterialsAmbitionOptimismProsperityDepartureRisk-takingMoraleEconomic PolicyAmerican Spirit Author:Mitch Daniels