Quotes About Downside

#1. It may part of a one way evolution ... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

Christopher Knight

#2. Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

John Corbett

#3. The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.

Brian Behlendorf

#4. The good news about showcasing chefs and the TV shows is they've attracted a lot more smart kids to the profession than 30 years ago. On the downside, though, these young chefs all say they want their own restaurant and their own TV show.

Wolfgang Puck

#5. This was the downside to cell phones. It was nowhere near as as satisfying to press end as it was to slam a phone into its holder.

Jenn McKinlay

#6. It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Richard Branson

#7. I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

Ashley Rickards

#8. If you're expecting an upside in everything you do you might get extremely disappointed unless you also think about the consequences of a downside first.

Lou Silluzio

#9. I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

Anna Quindlen

#10. The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

Jim Lee

#11. I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Bill Murray

#12. Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it's the downside of being a star player.

George Best

#13. Manage the downside; the upside will take care of itself

Donald Trump

#14. That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.

Robert F. Engle

#15. Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

Jeff Bridges

#16. There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore.
The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.

Camelia C.

#17. Sure, theater is tough because you're not home at night a lot and you work on weekends - every job has its downside. But to do something that you love doing for two hours a night, that's a pretty sweet gig.

Robert Sean Leonard

#18. Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

John Gutfreund

#19. Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

Philip Roth

#20. The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Aaron Sorkin

#21. Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

Thomas Friedman

#22. 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.

Peter Cundill

#23. Emma showered carefully - the downside of having your hair long when you were a Shadowhunter was never knowing after a fight if there was ichor in it. Once the back of her neck had been green for a week.

Cassandra Clare

#24. The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

Brian O'Driscoll

#25. I have seen the downside of power. I know the darkness it can create in someone, and I don't want that life.

Bridie Blake

#26. Is there a downside to eating well and getting in shape?

Heidi Murkoff

#27. That's the downside to San Diego. Once you live here, you never want to live anywhere else. Unfortunately everyone else already lives here.

Kiersten White

#28. To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Kate Baldwin

#29. Hope may have a positive reputation, but it has a vicious downside. If you have hope, you can be crushed.

Ann Napolitano

#30. Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

David Mitchell

#31. It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.

Alessandro Nivola

#32. The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

Greg Rusedski

#33. The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.

Rachel Maddow

#34. Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Mary Douglas

#35. I personally think the downside of being able to change into anything is the fear that you don't know who you really are.

C.C. Hunter

#36. Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Brad Pitt

#37. Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

John Niven

#38. The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.'

Ben Bernanke

#39. The downside to gun control is genocide.

John Ross

#40. Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

Jack Welpott

#41. I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it.

Josh Hopkins

#42. It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

Alan Greenspan

#43. The downside was that hospital staff took the first big blasts of secondary infection; the upside was that those blasts generally weren't emitted by people still feeling healthy enough to ride a bus or a subway to work. This was an enormously consequential factor in the SARS episode -

David Quammen

#44. Cover the downside.

Richard Branson

#45. Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk.

Seth Klarman

#46. Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

Tamara Ecclestone

#47. Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.

George Smathers

#48. The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Carole King

#49. Let's just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.

Junot Diaz

#50. Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

Mark Messier

#51. Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not wearing high heels? That's the downside to being in the public eye.

Ashley Greene

#52. There is not a single person I have met in my lifetime who is comfortable talking about death. It's the biggest downside to our youth-centric culture. Death is a bummer, so let's not talk about it. Let's hide it away and hope it never strikes close to home.

Gudjon Bergmann

#53. The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

Jill Barnett

#54. The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

Jason Alexander

#55. Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

Dave Lombardo

#56. The downside is that a person spends $20 to watch that hero instead of being that hero himself.

Patrick Bet-David

#57. Opinionated frameworks are also easier to learn because there is usually a "right" way to do something. The downside is that you're limited to building applications that the framework was made for, and moving outside of the use cases the framework was made for can be difficult

Jeff D. Dickey

#58. I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that is more fun than alcoholism. I know it has its downside, but I'll tell you, there's no other party disease like alcohol.

Dom Irrera

#59. I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

Cate Blanchett

#60. There's no real downside to any sort of work that I do. I'm all so grateful for it, but I wouldn't say that animated work is just a walk in the park. It is easy, it's really fun, but I don't know why I really stress myself out every time I'm about to go in.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#61. I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

Sean Bean

#62. That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Dick Thornburgh

#63. I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#64. The downside of fitness, which takes years to achieve, is how quickly it vanishes - almost instantly.

Sue Grafton

#65. Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

Tori Amos

#66. The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, even more dangerous, whatever your personal interests might be, there will always be someone somewhere to provide validation and encouragement.

Derek Ridgers

#67. And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#68. If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.

Jimmy Carter

#69. My view is that the U.S. market will eventually join the emerging markets on the downside because if you take a bearish view about emerging economies, you cannot be too optimistic about the U.S. because for many U.S. corporations, 50 percent or more of their profits come from emerging economies.

Marc Faber

#70. Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.

Michelle Gielan

#71. In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

Henry Rollins

#72. I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

Karrie Webb

#73. The upside of fall was the tourists had gone home. The downside was the county stopped spraying for mosquitos and no-see-ums, so the little fuckers got to gorge themselves in a type of 'eat local' frenzy.

Natasha Boyd

#74. Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.

Fran Lebowitz

#75. The downside of letting everyone know you're going to be all alone so they can attack you is that everyone knows you'll be all alone so they can attack you.

Holly Black

#76. I would think you'd be grateful, puppy. Kill some rabids, burn down a church - I don't see a downside here, do you?

Julie Kagawa

#77. We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices.

Howard Rheingold

#78. Investors need to pick their poison: Either make more money when times are good and have a really ugly year every so often, or protect on the downside and don't be at the party so long when things are good.

Seth Klarman

#79. Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

Walter Schloss

#80. Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#81. Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, 'Where's the greater benefit in this event?'

Jack Canfield

#82. I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does ...

Catherine Brady

#83. The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake.

David Mitchell

#84. As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside.

Pippa Middleton

#85. Most transactions have an upside and a downside, but when something is FREE! we forget the downside. FREE! gives us such an emotional charge that we perceive what is being offered as immensely more valuable than it really is. Why? I think it's because humans are intrinsically afraid of loss.

Dan Ariely

#86. That's the downside of being in love. It exposes your weaknesses. You're easy to manipulate and to take advantage of.

Nicole Huggins

#87. Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#88. Going with it was Tenley's superpower. Only child of a single dad, she'd learned to roll with almost any situation. The upside was very little ruffled her. The downside was very little ruffled her.

Rachel Hauck

#89. The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things ... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me.

Denise Richards

#90. Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Arne Jacobsen

#91. The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

Aaron Sorkin

#92. Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

Carolyn Hax

#93. There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for something more. And when one person's expectations don't match the other person's, then whoever holds the highest expectations suffers. There is no such thing as cheap sex. It always comes with a price.

Neil Strauss

#94. Seneca's version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#95. What's the most critical factor in any business decision you'll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If this all crashes, will it bring the whole house tumbling down like a pack of cards? One business matra remains embedded in my brain - protect the downside.

Richard Branson

#96. It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside.

Pippa Middleton

#97. There's no downside to having too much experience.

Barry Levinson

#98. You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.

Rodney Ulyate

#99. I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.

Michel Gondry

#100. The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Donald Miller