“Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.” InspirationalCertainBeliefRiskAtheismAcceptanceDegreesTasksUniversalIllnessBelieverSparesNeuroticAgnosticismNeurosis Author:Anatole France
“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.” PeopleIfsShouldRunningPastBeliefCausesStepsRiskTroubleChangedRegretNormalTradeHistorianMistakenVocationConservatism Author:A. J. P. Taylor
“Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.” ThinkingI CanReasonTodayMovingBeliefGriefGoneRiskMinutesTomorrowRight NowGloryMysteriousTidesHere Today Gone Tomorrow Book:High Tide in Tucson Source: High Tide in Tucson
“There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.” BelieveWholeBeliefRiskLove YouSafetyGreat Things Author:Elizabeth von Arnim
“There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be OK, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don't take risks.” IfsWellsFilmBeliefTermRiskMountainCommitmentAbsolutesDevotionClimbsClimbingFilmmakingParallelsClimbing Mountain Author:Jimmy Chin
“Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.” ProblemRealityBeliefRiskProductsCivilizationSolutionsIllusionAbsolutesManagementDeterminedOrganizedApplicationExpertiseRisk Management Author:Voltaire
“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.” MenWayMindBelieveFactsBeliefImaginationOur LivesRiskIgnoranceCellsLockedFlashHypothesisIntuitiveSeals Author:Lillian Smith
“The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness.” YearsHas BeensStillsRealSoulSelfHardMightWould BeAgeJobsBeliefMoralRiskHard WorkMetsIdealsYears AgoVicesErasYour SoulFiftyEnterpriseHeroicStillnessCapitalistRighteousThriftSelf RighteousGhastlyReal Jobs Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society