Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

I'm a guy who's either going to go full bore, or I'm not going to do it at all.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion

If you want the most reward you have to take the most risk.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

We risk all in being too greedy.

Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

It's not willing to settle for anything less than success.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things.

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.