“To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.”
Neil Strauss book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005)
“The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.”
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 24
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Chuck Palahniuk book Diary
Variant: People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Source: Diary
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Another excerpt from the Tris Speaker speech – featuring a much more familiar version of the "wasting your time" warning – as quoted in "Standing Cheer for Roberto" by Houston Chronicle sportswriter John Wilson, in The Sporting News (February 20, 1971), p. 44.
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Context: We must all live together and work together no matter what race or nationality. If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.