To expose feelings is to
risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk being
called naive.
To love is to risk not being
loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair,
and to try to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk
nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and
becomes nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel
and change and grow and love and live.
Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he's forfeited his freedom.
Only the person who risks is truly free.
Quote by
Leo Buscalia
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A new idea is different by nature -- it's off the
beaten path --
and it takes courage to risk failure or rejection.
For example,
how do you know that your brilliant insight isn't
going to lead you into a blind alley,
make you look stupid, cost you money, or worse?
You don't.
Thus, a crucial element of creative thinking is having
the courage to take a risk.
