Risk Quotes - Page 63

I quit because I'm so tired of hearing bad news about cigarettes... Even if they discover good news, they don't publicize it - like the fact that smoking seriously reduces the risk of jogging.

I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Take risks in order to innovate

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like to always be able to do them. For some reason, nudity is perceived differently here than it is elsewhere, and I didn't want to lose any American audience that I was building.

Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.

The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety.

So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.

Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart - lead from what you believe in.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take

It's easier being a judge than a competitor. As a judge, you don't have any risks. That makes it much more enjoyable.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information