Risk Quotes - Page 21

This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.

There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be OK, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don't take risks.

I’m prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.

Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?

How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.

Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. It is automatic. It is thoughtless

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside, can seem more like constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others, because they reside in far too private a chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily trouble, but often the opposite. To have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.

The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.