To create today is to create dangerously. . . Danger makes men classical, and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Creation involves risk; greatness comes from facing danger in the creative process.
- In plain terms
- Creating things is risky, and that risk leads to greatness.
- What can you take from it?
- Embrace risk when you create.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What risks do you take to create?
- Is greatness worth the danger?
Another view
Not all risk leads to greatness; some leads to failure or harm.
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To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.
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