A Quote by Josephine Decker

To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever pay you for - at first.

Josephine Decker

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Josephine Decker
American - Actor
Born: April 2, 1981

The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are "too great for private industry." This means that bureaucrats should be permitted to take risks with the tax payer's money that no one is willing to take with his own.

Henry Hazlitt

If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks.

Jonathan Anderson

That's just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what's right - and for what we do wrong. That's one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

Afeni Shakur

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.

Richard Branson

This is boxing. As fighters we know the risks, we know we are risking our health everytime you step into the ring, but it's a risk we are willing to take because we know with those risks come great reward.

Chris Eubank Jr.

An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.

Christian Slater

Trump is the first president in a generation who is willing to take political risks to secure our border.

Charlie Kirk

Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim for quality and to take risks.

Amanda Foreman

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

William James

Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive.

Chris Hadfield

I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.

Shraddha Srinath

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

John Tesh

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Yo-Yo Ma

For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.