Naomi Klein Quotes

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.

Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back.

We don’t get to replay history.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

Bad choices make good stories.

This record was kind of, like, innocent. It's called 'The Innocents.' So it's the concept of being young enough to not really understand the implications of your decisions and then kind of feeling the weight later and being, like, but I was innocent. Like, did I deserve this?

Regret's kind of like a fool's game.

I made a million, and I lost a million.

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.