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• Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Writing, Sleep

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.51

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• That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.

  Rosita Forbes

  Lying, Adventure, Journey

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• I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my heart or express my soul until it has also blended therewith the joyful nearness of that perfect love that casts out fear and ventures to speak with our Father in heaven as a child speaks with its father on earth. My brother, no veil remains.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Children, Father

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• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  Rand Beers

  Eight, Chinese, United States

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• Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Lame, Matter

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “Volume of prefaces”

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• A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leader, Risk, Going Out

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (1998). “The Power of Servant-leadership: Essays”, p.44, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Successful, Important

  "The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership". Book by Richard Branson, www.businessinsider.com. 2014.

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• For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

  Dan Kimball

  Motivation, Church, Heroic

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• The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending to venture into such tricky waters needs to have an intimate knowledge of all the hidden reefs.

  John Nunn

  Player, Water, Depth

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• 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, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Sea, Other Worlds

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.337, Ballantine Books

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• One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Gone, Incredibles

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Shoes, New Ventures

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• Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.

  Paul Sloane

  Leadership, Team, Organization

  Paul Sloane (2006). “The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity & Innovation in You and Your Team”, p.11, Kogan Page Publishers

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• Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.

  William H. Gates, Sr.

  Successful, Venture Capitalists, Firsts

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• The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Israel, Way

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

  Andre Gide

  Single, Being Single, Consent

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• Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise,
  He who defers this work from day to day,
  Does on a river's bank expecting stay,
  Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone,
  That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.

  Abraham Cowley

  Wise, Running, Time

  Abraham Cowley (1777). “Select works [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.257

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• I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

  Al Neuharth

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

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• Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.

  J. Paul Getty

  Games, Play, Challenges

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• Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

  William James

  Success, Confidence, Believe

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• I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

  George Washington

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1778). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”, p.286

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• Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, War, Two

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• The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Book, Animal

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• Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

  William Ralph Inge

  Risk, Elements, Affinity

  William Ralph Inge (1910). “Faith and Its Psychology”

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