Risk Quotations | Page 3

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.

We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

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.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

People need to learn to live with more risk.

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia.

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

When you live in a safe place like Monte Carlo, you can walk home at any time of the night and you don't have to worry. I don't feel at risk there. If I drive myself, I can leave the car doors unlocked.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

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.

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals. If we are going to stop the spread of HIV in our lifetime, then that is the change we need to spread.

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.