Risk famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
-- A. R. Ammons -
I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.
-- Aamir Khan -
It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.
-- Abe Ajay -
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
-- Achim Steiner -
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.
-- Adam Lambert -
Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
-- Adrian Slywotzky -
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.
-- African Spir -
I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.
-- Ajay Devgan -
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.
-- Akira Mori -
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
-- Akshay Kumar -
The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
-- Al Pacino -
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
-- Alain Badiou -
I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.
-- Alain Prost -
I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
-- Alain Robert -
People need to learn to live with more risk.
-- Alain Robert -
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage -
Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.
-- Alan Arkin -
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
-- Alan Greenspan -
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
-- Alan Greenspan -
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
-- Alan Hirsch -
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart - lead from what you believe in.
-- Alan Keith -
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.
-- Alan Watts -
Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different
-- Alber Elbaz -
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
-- Albert Camus -
The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.
-- Albert Ellis -
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending task which requires not only competence but also spiritual discernment. Yet this is precisely the task which we must assume, even at the risk of being vague on specifics. The alternative is to compromise basic themes of authentic Christianity.
-- Albert M. Wolters -
So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.
-- Albert Mohler -
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.
-- Alexander Elder -
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
-- Alexander the Great -
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.
-- Alfie Kohn -
...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.
-- Alfred Mele -
The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production.
-- Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari -
Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.
-- Aliko Dangote -
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
-- Alistair Darling -
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety.
-- Allan Bloom -
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.
-- Allen Wheelis -
There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.
-- Ally Carter -
We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.
-- Amanda Ripley -
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
-- Amanda Ripley -
Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.
-- Amy Poehler -
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
-- Amy Poehler -
Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.
-- Amy Poehler -
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.
-- Anais Nin -
No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with.... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence -- that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.
-- Anat R. Admati -
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
-- Anatole France -
I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal. Just taking the risk of opening that door is really hard for me right now.
-- Andie MacDowell -
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
-- Andre Gide -
I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
-- Andre Malraux -
The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?
-- Andrew Ford -
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
-- Andrew Lo -
The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood
-- Andrew Lo -
You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.
-- Andrew Tobias -
The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.
-- Andy Dunn -
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
-- Andy Greenwald -
Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.
-- Andy Kennedy -
Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
-- Ang Lee -
The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.
-- Angela Braly -
...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.
-- Angela Merkel -
We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.
-- Angela Merkel -
...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.
-- Anita Desai -
Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
-- Ann Macbeth -
People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.
-- Annabelle Wallis -
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
-- Anne Bancroft -
It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self
-- Anne Bogart -
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.
-- Anne Carson -
If you let go of me now,†I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?
-- Anne Fortier -
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?
-- Anne Lamott -
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
-- Anne Rice -
If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
-- Anne Stuart -
Some genetic variants can be informative about ones risk for Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease.
-- Anne Wojcicki -
For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.
-- Anouk Aimee -
Good food and good eating are about risk.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
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 -
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
-- Anthony Giddens -
High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things 'go wrong', it is already too late.
-- Anthony Giddens -
Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.
-- Anthony Giddens -
[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.
-- Anthony Giddens -
The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.
-- Anthony Giddens -
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.
-- Anthony Giddens -
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
-- Anthony Giddens -
The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
-- Anthony Giddens -
Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
