What is life without a little risk? — J. K. Rowling

What is life without a little risk?

Author: J. K. Rowling

Insight: Playing it completely safe is actually riskier—you end up looking back with regrets instead of stories. The people who seem most alive aren't fearless; they just decided boring failure beats never trying. Your biggest risk? Staying small.

Source: 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', p. 174

What is life without a little risk?

J. K. Rowling'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', p. 174

Insight

Playing it completely safe is actually riskier—you end up looking back with regrets instead of stories. The people who seem most alive aren't fearless; they just decided boring failure beats never trying. Your biggest risk? Staying small.

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J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling is a British author best known for creating the globally successful "Harry Potter" series, which has sold over 500 million copies and been adapted into a major film franchise. Born on July 31, 1965, in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, she wrote the first Harry Potter book while struggling as a single mother and has since become one of the world's most influential and wealthiest authors. In addition to the Harry Potter series, Rowling has written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, producing the Cormoran Strike detective novels.

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