“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.” PainJoySpiritLeftSoundLosesHurtOur LivesGrowingRiskTreeCrazyChildhoodDogCryWindCallingOkayPaintCuriousClimbsBikeWipeVigorousJoy And PainHedgerows Author:Peter Heller
“Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.” ThinkingIdeasHardDoneStoriesTurnsLeftEasyAudienceRiskLosingTwistsTurn-on Author:Damon Lindelof
“Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.” MomentsFeelingsLeftWrittenRiskCompositionUneasy Book:Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands Source: Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
“I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're preparing to do the work but then once you get there you have to feel as free as possible. Anything that I perceived as something that ran the risk of stressing me out, I just left outside the studio doors because I didn't want to undermine myself.” WantFeelsTryingLeftCasesRiskDoorsQuietStressStudiosRanPreparingBasketsLeft Out Author:Katherine Waterston
“whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.” IdeasLeftWishSilenceTalkingRiskHolidayFriendlySeemingTranceReprieve Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.” IfsShouldTryingPersonsWinningLeftChanceSinRiskElementsTragedyFinishedCautionAvoided Book:The power of money dynamics Source: The power of money dynamics
“The US will increasingly see the risks of being left behind, and ten years from now they would have to start worrying about being shut out of markets because their production is dirty.” YearsLeftBehindsWorryRiskTenClimate ChangeProductionsDirtyGlobal WarmingLeft Behind Author:Nicholas Stern
“We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age.” IfsMenMindLongStillsSeemsRunningAgeActionYoungCoursesLeftLosesRiskDogEasierDefeatObligationOld AgeChiefsYoung ManLionsConsolation Author:Elmer Davis