Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

Do you think it’s wise, darling? You know you’ve got to rule this afternoon.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

A first impulse was never a crime.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will.

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit. It is but common prudence to see the way out before we venture in.

We should not get ourselves committed until we know how everything will come out.

The power of uncontrollable decision is of the most delicate and dangerous nature.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

Moral hazard is something I don't take lightly.

Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril - trust me.

Every time I've rushed into something, that's usually when I have regrets.

You have to stick to your plan. Throwing everything overboard and inventing something on the spot does not make sense. You will never get that from me.

If you made the choice to get in there and fight, you have to accept accountability for whatever happens.

The fact is as you get older you can't just change things or be quite as laissez-faire; you're conscious of the effort and time it takes for things to happen.

It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

I'm very practical as a person as well, and I think that's where I get confidence from. As impulsive and spontaneous as I am, I'm still very practical. I always have been. I work out my pros and cons, and then I make an informed decision on whether I should do something or not. I really believe if you're going to do something, you have to do it 100 percent; otherwise it's better not to do it.

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.