Stakes Quotes

523 Stakes quotes by 440 unique authors

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the… — Lewis H. Lapham
The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain unconscious of being… — Adyashanti
Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. — Sol LeWitt
Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They… — Unknown Author
The stakes are nary a problem to me, as I do not abide by Sir Isaac's law! — Unknown Author
As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just… — Brad Alan Lewis
We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We… — Eileen Collins
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,… — Carl Sagan
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with… — James Hansen
Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our… — Barack Obama
Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it… — Anatoly Karpov
I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and… — Althea Gibson
The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build… — Gary Zukav
It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period… — Bille August
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake… — Friedrich Nietzsche
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as… — Hunter S. Thompson
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. — Thomas E. Mann
Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were… — A.C. Grayling
We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean me… — Henry Ford II

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