Risk Quotes - Page 29

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks

I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.

Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare for change, build a new behavior, become confident in the face of high-risk triggers, and move past the likelihood of relapse. Brain research also suggests that it takes a few months of practicing a new behavior to create permanent change.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

You have crossbows: Shoot early; shoot often.

It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.

And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500 years, which scientific risks have not been pursued. It raises the question of who has decided what scientific risks were worth taking, and what have been the consequences in terms of the power structures of the world.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.