Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
Copy QuoteThe biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Copy Quote View & ShareTake chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Copy Quote View & ShareYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
Copy Quote View & ShareOur lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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