Risk Quotes
Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.
Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.
The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.
Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?
The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.
If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
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.
The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.
Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information
It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.
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.
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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.
In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.
I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.
One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.
Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.
One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.
As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.
I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.
Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.
When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.
There isn't an entrepreneur or a scientific pioneer who hasn't had failures. And if we don't rear children who are comfortable taking risks, we won't have successes.
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.
With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.
The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.
Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.
The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.