Risk Quotes - Page 28

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do. I want to skip to work. I don't want to repeat anything. What the future holds, I don't know, but that's what I like. I'll take any risk there is.

What you risk reveals what you value.

The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.

God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.

After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'

Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

The problem with a job is that relying on others to give you a living is the biggest risk of all.