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“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.”

Pain Joy Spirit Left Sound Loses Hurt Our Lives Growing Risk Tree Crazy Childhood Dog Cry Wind Calling Okay Paint Curious Climbs Bike Wipe Vigorous Joy And Pain Hedgerows

Author:Peter Heller

“I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk - who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mean Together Spirit Chance Forever Risk Married Insanity Timing Getting Married Together Forever

Author:Cate Blanchett

“If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.”

Ifs Knows Spirit Church Loss Risk Adventure Innovation Embrace Lays Insight Abandon Inherent Aversion Freshness Adventure And Risk

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.”

Needs Spirit Fall Taken Risk Adventure Wall Late Conviction Obstacles Leap Sense Of Humor Falling Down Unshakable Spirit Of Adventure

Book:I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent

Source: I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent

“A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.”

Ifs Spirit Leadership Chance Business Environment Risk Organization Corporations Ceo Chances Are Risk-taking

Book:The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

Source: The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

“Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”

Thinking Long Spirit Risk Adventure Glorious

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.”

Ifs Needs Long Running Spirit Passion Animal Creativity Risk Feds Starving

Author:Nancy Lam

“If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.”

People Ifs Spirit Differences Too Much Risk Accounts Impact Burden Boards Relative Bureaucracy Entrepreneurial Government Bureaucracy Entrepreneurial Spirit Impact On Society

Author:Samuel J. Palmisano