Risk Quotes - Page 68

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

I like to take a shot with things. I like to take risks. I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.

Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.

Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number of problems, but also, and perhaps equally important, moral is improved.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.