Risk Quotes - Page 36

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

If you do put yourself out there and do things that are not safe, then you run the risk of being criticized for it.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

As you evolve, you lean that wrestling is not necessarily about stunts or spots. You need to go out and show the audience that they can love you for the persona you are - not because of the risk you're willing to take or the jeopardy you're willing to put your body in.

we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

I would take all the precautions, I'm going to bring my natural remedies, keep the mosquitoes away naturally and I'm going to bring my DEET. I'm going to do my part. And again, it's something, when a baby is involved you don't want to take any risks. So I would just exercise a lot of caution and do my part and then get tested and go for it.

One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.

I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're preparing to do the work but then once you get there you have to feel as free as possible. Anything that I perceived as something that ran the risk of stressing me out, I just left outside the studio doors because I didn't want to undermine myself.

Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit.

I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.