Risk Quotes - Page 87

Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.

The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

Of course if you happen to time the market really well, you can make more money with some of these smaller companies, but for someone with no exposure I wouldn't want to take the risk that they timed it wrong.

Changes made by management today make no improvement.

For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.

The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.

At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.

At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

Follow your dreams and take your risks.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

The best way to let people go is to let them know when they're hired that it's an uncertain environment and that their job is always at risk and even if you let them go, it's not that you don't love them.