Risk Quotes - Page 52

I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?

Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

Take risks in your life in the pursuit of your dreams, and support the ones you love when they take risks.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.