Risk Quotes

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

I always think that when we actors talk about the films that we've done we run the risk of destroying everything.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?

My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks

Risk means that more things could happen that will happen

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.

You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?

Truly living required risk.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

It's important to take risks.

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change.

Misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Bigger the risk, bigger the reward. But the higher the climb the harder the fall.

Risk is the most intense road.

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don’t.

Amateurs focus on rewards. Professionals focus on risk!