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«Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, act, bet, betting, bet on, calculated, calculating, difference, ideas, I Bet You, more often than not, risk, successful, you bet
«Make a bet every day; otherwise you might walk around lucky and never know it.»
«Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| About:
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, bet, bet on, calculated, calculating
«Three jolly Farmers / Once bet a pound / Each dance the other would / Off the ground.»
«I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.»
«The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.»
«Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
bet, betting odds, gamble, gambles, odds
«I bet when neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, 'Don't forget the thick, heavy brows.' Then they would get all embarrassed because they remembered they had the big husky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bet, brows, embarrassed, end up, heavy, husky, Neanderthal, Neanderthals, remembered, snowman, Snowmen, the Big, thick
«I hope if dogs take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.»
«Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg
(Comedian)
| About:
Fashion,
Funny,
Self-Awareness
| Keywords:
ass, beret, bet, ridiculous, wake up, wearing, you bet
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