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We are givers, not takers.
Harry Redknapp / Football Manager
Givers
Takers
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Sad stories have no takers.
Rao Ramesh /
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I don't like people who are just takers.
Elle King /
People Who Like
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There are almost no takers for independent musicians in India.
Amit Trivedi /
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I like risk takers. They're the ones that end up changing the world.
Marcela Valladolid /
Changing The World
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I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
Kevin Spacey / Actor
Always Believe
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Believed
Eventually
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Rewarded
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
Adam Grant / Professor
Generous
Giver
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Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
Adam Grant / Professor
Self Serving
Takers
Interactions
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I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.
Michael J. Massimino / Engineer
Space
Astronaut
Risk
Thinking
Worthwhile
Astronauts
Calculated
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Risks
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My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Marlo Thomas / Actress
Inspirational
Motivational
Wisdom
Father
May
People
Said
Sleep
Suicide
Two
World
Eat
Were
Givers
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The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go to Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!
Beau Bridges / Actor
Bakers
Boys
Fabulous
Hawaii
Pitching
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Mythologicals and historicals have always found takers in India. The audience identifies with them and they make for good family viewing.
Abhimanyu Singh /
Good Family
Family Good Always
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Viewing
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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chelsea Handler, Tilda Swinton, and Sofia Coppola are other clients. They're all risk takers but never look like they're in costume.
Maria Cornejo /
Chelsea
Clients
Maggie
Coppola
Costume
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Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
Adam Grant / Professor
Creates
Gaining
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As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.
Phil Crane / American Politician
Dad
Found
Obligation
World
Life Dad World
Leave
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Reminded
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I think Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani, and Victoria Beckham all have an aesthetic that I admire, but I also love extreme risk takers like Miley Cyrus and Rihanna.
Michelle Visage / Singer
Admire
Aesthetic
Beckham
Jennifer
Victoria
Extreme
Rihanna
Takers
Jennifer Lopez
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India has a cross section of audience whose cultural levels are varied. So where there are takers for Dabangg,' there are also audience for A Wednesday' and Peepli Live.'
Atul Kulkarni /
Levels
Wednesday
Cross
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Section
Varied
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Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.
Bhavish Aggarwal /
Enough
Focus
Making Money
Real
Real Problems
Solutions
Money Better Your
Follow
Takers
Help
Making
Problems
Solving
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When something looks really risky from the outside, what people are doing on the inside - they're not professional risk takers. But they're probably professional risk mitigators.
Anne Mcclain /
Looks
Risk
Inside
People Doing Something
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Outside
Professional
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I really like the risk takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron. I think she's elegant and edgy as well. I love Zoe Saldana.
Genesis Rodriguez / Film Actress
Carpet
Choices
Edgy
Elegant
Risk
Charlize Theron
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In Punjabi, we make romcoms or just comedy films because that's what the audience wants. They want family entertainers. We've tried making action films, but there are no takers for that.
Ammy Virk /
Action Films
Entertainers
Takers
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
Louise Brown /
Girl
British
Dancing
Lahore
Publishers
Confident
Dozens
Takers
Offered
Turned
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When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Girl
Character
Dancing
Orchestra
Singing
Theater
Cast
Takers
Production
Miller
Owned
Ticket
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
Sally Mann / Photographer
Bread
Peanuts
Vegetables
Baked
Butter
Takers
Grand
Healthful
Packed
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Talented people have a responsibility to get the training they need to be successful risk takers and go out there to take risks. What I see is surplus of talented people and a shortage of people willing to take the risks.
Edward Conard /
Shortage
Surplus
Takers
Talented People
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
Adam Grant / Professor
Trust
Clients
Colleagues
Creating
Deeper
Build
Believe Where World
Bosses
Broader
Givers
Takers
Instead
Relationships
Rooting
Zero-Sum
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To take on the jobs of tomorrow, students must become more than good test takers. They need to become makers who design, sketch, build, and prototype. And their classrooms will need more than a chalkboard and a set of textbooks.
Charles Best /
Jobs
Design
Makers
Prototype
Tomorrow
Build
Classrooms
Takers
Sketch
Test
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The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
Adam Grant / Professor
Colleagues
Ideas
Productivity
Share
Supporter
Timely
Good Look Way
Opposite
Enhance
Working
Look
Givers
Takers
Help
Provide
Rather
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Victor Kiam / Entrepreneur
Failure
Dice
Enterprise
Facets
Ideas
Reputation
Responsibility
Risk
Support
Venture
Willing
Answerable
Assume
Entrepreneurs
Takers
Line
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
Adam Grant / Professor
Future
Blame
Following
Made
Mistake
Steps
Sure
Here
Down
Givers
Takers
Learned
Likely
Place
Quick
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You've got to do your homework, and you've got to look at what makes people successful, what makes penalty takers unsuccessful. Ultimately, they're the ones kicking it, so how can you transfer the pressure on to them? How can you disrupt their pattern to make it difficult?
Jack Butland /
Homework
Unsuccessful
Your Look People
Disrupt
Takers
Look Difficult People
Pattern
Transfer
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Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.
Erik Voorhees /
Finance
Amount
Bitcoin
Destroyed
Goodness
Huge
Landscape
Legion
Problem
Risk
Wealth
West
Whole
Wild West
Absolutely
Adventurers
Out
Wild
New
Created
Entrepreneurs
Frontier
Takers
Huge Amounts
Inventors
Mapped
Represents
Thank
Thank Goodness
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I'm the chairman of the board of the Actor's Fund. It's an incredible organization. It helps anybody that has made their living in the performing arts and entertainment: actors, singers, dancers, film producers, agents, managers, ticket takers, writers, anybody in times of need or crisis.
Brian Stokes Mitchell /
Agents
Fund
Managers
Performing Arts
Singers
Board
Dancers
Takers
Ticket
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If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard work makes this country run cannot earn a living wage, while bankers, speculators, and corporate elites - the real 'takers' in today's society - skim off far more than their fair share.
Stephanie Coontz / Author
American Dream
Bankers
Corporate
Elites
Fair Share
Living Wage
Revive
Change Work Society
Earn
Takers
Wage
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
Xavier Dolan / Actor
Absence
Cinema
Patient
Scenery
Thankless
Appear
Rare
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Muted
Voices
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It's a big moment, a heart-rate moment. It's all in the preparation for me. Watching the various takers, I can prepare as best I can. I can prepare, too, with my own team-mates - they practise, which, in turn, helps me practise trying to save penalties. I want as much confidence as I can in the preparation and then take it from that.
Joe Hart / Footballer
Penalties
Practise
Preparation
Best Moment Me
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We've been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs, and I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It's now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
Liz Truss /
Encouraging
Higher
Income
Income Tax
Labour
Majority
Prepared
Rate
Risk
Tax System
Tax
Cent
Corporation
Vast
Entrepreneurs
Takers
Per
Labour Government
Lower
Observe
Simpler
Vast Majority
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