Gavin Lyall quotes
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“"Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying in the face of nature. It's unnatural, wicked and stuffed with risks all the time. The secret to flying is learning to minimize the risks." "Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?"”
-- Gavin LyallSource : Gavin Lyall (2013). “Shooting Script”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?”
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“Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.”
-- Gavin Lyall
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”
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“I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.”
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“Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.”
Source : "The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.
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