Quotes On Risk Culture

#1. If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

John P. Kotter

#2. The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

Anthony Giddens

#3. Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola, we contribute to a culture of panic and ignorance.

Ann Brasco

#4. If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Erica Jong

#5. Culture is worth a little risk,

Norman Mailer

#6. If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.

Alan W. Kennedy

#7. When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.

T.F. Hodge

#8. The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for culture or evolution, for species and also for whole societies. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing.

George M. Church

#9. Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

Marc Andreessen

#10. Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.

Mike Barnicle

#11. Mainly, it's not that there are things you can't say. It's that there are things you can't say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.

Oliver Burkeman

#12. Christians risk becoming utterly irrelevant in their own culture if they continue to seperate people into "We the Saved" and "They the Damned". Again, I ask, do we need Jesus to protect us from God? Is that what Christianity as we've known is about? Are we saved from God by God?

Carlton D. Pearson

#13. We live in a culture where the acknowledgment of wrong or the ownership of risk and failure is paramount to forfeiting the game.

Dan B. Allender

#14. North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

Evgeny Morozov

#15. In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

Shirin Neshat

#16. a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

Sister Nivedita

#17. So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

Thom Mayne

#18. She'd believed in the promises of the '60s, after all, even if she'd participated only indirectly. Hadn't they told themselves they would not be like the generation of their parents, trapped in choices they'd made at twenty?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#19. As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.

Sara Sheridan

#20. When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

Mark Cuban

#21. The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#22. In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#23. In a culture that elevates beauty and style, the Christian community is at genuine risk fordistraction, even deception. What do we truly admire in our leaders? Are we nodifferent from secular population, drawn tocharisma and style above substance and i tegrity?
I hope not.

Jen Hatmaker

#24. One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Jean De La Bruyere

#25. Corporate brand, culture, knowledge, and risk management are all boardroom concerns.

Pearl Zhu

#26. Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

Simon Rattle

#27. Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

Randy Schekman

#28. Joy comes to us in moments - ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary. Scarcity culture may keep us afraid of living small, ordinary lives, but when you talk to people who have survived great losses, it is clear that joy is not a constant.

Brene Brown

#29. Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

Susan Cain

#30. We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.

Cate Blanchett

#31. People not versed in our culture only ever imagine that the person at risk in a BDSM dynamic is a sub.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

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

Daniel Handler