Top 100 Quotes About Risks
#1. People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
Emmy Rossum
#2. Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision."
"You wouldn't have done it, I bet."
"That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.
Veronica Roth
#3. Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
David Soul
#4. The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman
#5. I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome
or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.
Famke Janssen
#6. I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.
Robert David Hall
#7. One of the risks related to an environment marked by high rates of unemployment, low rates of economic growth, and poor education is that it may serve as a breeding ground for radical sentiment.
Frans Cronje
#8. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
#9. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.
G.R. Gopinath
#10. Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.
Kim Swift
#11. Life doesn't send out invitations. Don't wait. Take risks. Be unforgettable. Be happy and live.
Kate Mathias
#12. This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves.
Chris Matakas
#14. Those who don't want to take risks in life end up been the losers.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.'s - I didn't see any of that coming until it happened.
Janet Yellen
#16. There are risks you can't afford to take and there are risks you can't afford NOT to take."
Elizabeth g. Arthur
Elizabeth G. Arthur
#17. Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.
Matteo Renzi
#18. Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks.
John Mark Reynolds
#19. Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
Norman Mailer
#20. You keep saying words like crazy and insane and risky, but Vera, the best things in life are all of those things. You can't reap big rewards if you don't take big risks.
Rachel Higginson
#22. TOMORROW'S WILL
Silent world, I find myself,
Glad no one hears my thoughts.
In dark cocoon, I hibernate,
Yet spirit spills every thought.
A second chance to try again.
The risks I know too well.
Two sunsets turning into six-
Awaits tomorrow's will.
Giorge Leedy
#23. Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
Anthony De Mello
#24. There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
#25. Most risks we might not take if we could see what we would have to go through to reach our goal. Yet, we would never not take most risks if we knew the great learning experience and soul enrichment they would bring.
Linda Eyre
#26. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun
Mary Lou Cook
#27. For all the opportunities that arise from the Fourth Industrial Revolution - and there are many - it does not come without risks. Perhaps one of the greatest is that the changes will exacerbate inequalities. And as we all know, a more unequal world is a less stable one.
Klaus Schwab
#28. I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.
Stan Lee
#29. But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ...
James Cameron
#30. Life is full of risks. But if you try to build a fence around all your fears, you'll shut out joy too.
Dorothy Love
#31. There are no chances." He favored her again with that unreadable look. "You succeed or you fail. Battles are not won by men who refuse to take risks." It
Kate Elliott
#32. When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.
Ben Affleck
#33. Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their visions without taking risks.
Alan Lightman
#34. You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.
D.D. Barant
#35. Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
Warren Farrell
#36. Mrs. Astor had long held that artists of any ilk - painters, authors, actors and the like - merit no recognition unless safely dead, and that meeting them risks both needless mental fatigue and the possibility of social contamination.
Paula Cohen
#37. With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.
Kristin Hannah
#38. I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.
Daniel Handler
#39. Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.
Zac Posen
#40. Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.
Jeanette Lee
#41. When I made 'Terminator 3,' I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting.
Jonathan Mostow
#42. People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.
George H. W. Bush
#43. Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.
Steve Brown
#44. There are anthropogenic state risks at the existential level as well: the longer we live in an internationally anarchic system, the greater the cumulative chance of a thermonuclear Armageddon or of a great war fought with other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, laying waste to civilization.
Nick Bostrom
#45. We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.
Vinod Khosla
#47. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#48. Start small; get to know the landscape. We take risks but not major risks. We always started with small capital - €4m in Holland, $10m in Russia - and as we get to know the landscape of a country, we think about other businesses.
Husnu Ozyegin
#49. The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
James Gould Cozzens
#50. Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself - traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting. This may explain why girls' academic gains have not yet translated into significantly higher numbers of women in top jobs.
Sheryl Sandberg
#51. The risks are 'How country can you go?' rather than 'How rock can you take it?'
Joe Nichols
#52. Even if you lose love, it's never really gone. It stays in you forever. The risks of love are always worth it.
Karina Halle
#53. There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.
Janny Wurts
#54. Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.
Alice Dreger
#55. I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company.
Alex Honnold
#56. Some people are born flight risks. It is no shortcoming of yours that they cannot keep their feet on the ground. It is not your fault that they cannot seem to stand in place. They are not leaving you; they are just leaving.
Trista Mateer
#57. If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
Alfie Kohn
#58. Literature offers feelings for which we don't have to pay. It allows us to love, condemn, condone, hope, dread, and hate without any of the risks those feelings ordinarily involve.
Jonathan Gottschall
#59. Parental wealth is especially important for social mobility, because it can provide informal insurance that allows kids to take more risks in search of more reward.
Robert D. Putnam
#60. Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#61. While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
Naoto Kan
#62. Nella vita: chi non risica, non rosica," he said finally, his voice quiet. "In life: nothing ventured, nothing gained. My mom used to tell us that. It's been a long time, but I can still hear her saying it.
J.M. Darhower
#63. When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.
Eric Bana
#64. A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.
Peter Drucker
#66. Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you're taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family's security. But the rewards outweigh those things.
Joan Osborne
#67. I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.
Erykah Badu
#68. Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.
Philip Brown
#69. New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way.
Klaus Schwab
#70. Everyone, I understand your positions. We have procedures. Skipping those procedures means risk. Risk means trouble for your department. But now isn't the time to cover our asses. We have to take risks or Mark Watney dies.
Andy Weir
#71. I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
Peter Eisenman
#72. Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.
Grace Napolitano
#73. If we don't take risks in life, the price can sometimes be far higher.
Charles Maclean
#74. Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#75. The guys in New York don't know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.
Larry Kramer
#76. A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
Michel De Montaigne
#77. Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti
#78. Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.
Brene Brown
#79. Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
Gregg Easterbrook
#80. People struggle with moments of deep dread about life and moments of surety. Often within the course of the same day. Life is a roller coaster, especially if you take risks.
Ann Nocenti
#81. Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.
Robert Kiyosaki
#83. Do people know which risks lead to many deaths and which risks lead to few?" the legal scholar Cass Sunstein asks. "They do not. In fact, they make huge blunders." Sunstein draws this observation from the work of Paul Slovic, author of The Perception of Risk.
Eula Biss
#84. You shouldn't be afraid to take risks. It might not always work out, you might fail miserably and get hurt, but you'll never know unless you try. And if it does work, wouldn't it have been worth it?
J.M. Darhower
#85. Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
Dana Delany
#86. High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.
Anthony Giddens
#87. If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's OK to follow the trends. This is mainly because many labels are afraid to take big risks on something that sounds too different than the status quo.
Wendy Starland
#88. One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.
Susan Estrich
#89. You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.
Paulo Coelho
#90. Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.
Richie Sambora
#91. When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.
Tullian Tchividjian
#92. Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.
Kirby Wright
#93. Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.
Ilsa J. Bick
#94. A design that doesn't take change into account risks major redesign in the future.
Erich Gamma
#95. A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.
Camille Paglia
#96. By early 2009 the risks and losses associated with more than a trillion dollars' worth of bad investments were transferred from big Wall Street firms to the U.S. taxpayer.
Michael Lewis
#97. Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.
Jeff Goodell
#98. I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.
Hark-Joon Lee
#99. In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.
Jorge Bucay
#100. No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
Alex Honnold
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