Art Quote by Hiroko Sakai

“Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves”

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Hey, you know that thing Dostoyevesky wrote on gambling? It's like that. When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you…

— Haruki Murakami

“It's only gambling if you're wagering something substantial. As opposed to? Information, intelligence, the profits of the mind. Greater things can be exchanged than…

— Rachel Saylor

“I have reached far beyond my competence and have probably secured for good a reputation for flamboyant gestures. But the times still crowd me…

— Ernest Becker

“Who’s to say that gamblers don’t really understand it better than anyone else? Isn’t everything worthwhile a gamble? Can’t good come around sometimes through…

— Tartt Donna

“...the brain is like a muscle, and if you don't exercise it by reading and doing creative stuff, it'll get weak and mushy.”

— Jeff Kinney

“You're afraid to gamble even when you're already dead”

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“Most of us are busy gambling on the most dangerous risk of all—living our whole life not doing what we want on the bet…

— Jake Ducey

“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Logically, gambling shouldn’t evoke much anticipatory dopamine, given the astronomical odds against winning. But the behavioral engineering—the 24-7 activity and lack of time cues,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and…

— Neil Gaiman

Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is…

— Mike Caro