Risk Quotes - Page 40

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own commercial judgment. If we cannot rely on the judgment of individual businessmen, taking their own risks, we have no future anyway.

Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!

Remember that quitting is always an option, and it's the only one that guarantees a predictable result. Stay in the fight and everything is at risk. Quit and you know what will happen NOTHING!

Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

I like to be risky every day, changing minds every day. I'm not reliable at all in my ideas. I can change my ideas three times a day. I change different things, the parts of the content. But I never change the content of who I am. So my challenge every day is to change and to take risks.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety is insurance. You can be insured for almost anything if you pay enough for the premium, but if the insurance industry isn't willing to bet its money on the safety of [biotechnology], it means the risks are simply too high or too uncertain for them to take the gamble.