Quotes About Taking Risks To Get What You Want

#1. 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

#2. A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.

Francis Fukuyama

#3. When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

David Nevins

#4. I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.

James McAvoy

#5. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE.

Cammie McGovern

#6. I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

Alain Robert

#7. If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Price Pritchett

#8. People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

Zach Braff

#9. Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

Bruce Kovner

#10. When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

Joan Baez

#11. individual risk taking, especially in the domain of risks to life and health.

Richard H. Thaler

#12. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

Rick Welts

#13. Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#14. Risks may make you win, or they will make you learn. Either of the benefits is worth daring for.

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous.

Anthony Liccione

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.

Philip Brown

#19. 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

#20. There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.

Janny Wurts

#21. 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

#22. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.

Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

#23. Doing good required taking risks.

Ted Dekker

#24. I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

Daniel Handler

#25. With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.

Kristin Hannah

#26. 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

#27. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun

Mary Lou Cook

#28. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.

G.R. Gopinath

#29. 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

#30. 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