Top 1200 Great Risk Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

To Jim Duggan, taking a shower is a high risk maneuver.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

There's no question that women are more risk averse, thoughtful, and deliberative.

In any survival situation, you need to weigh the risk and the reward.

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

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.

The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

We believe addressing the risk of climate change is a global issue.

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.

No risk? Then no danger of losing and finally no thrill in winning.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.

Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!

Doing politics in Venezuela is a risk, and you can pay with your life.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.

We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.

I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

Mistakes are a risk but recovering from them shows a lot of personality.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

We cannot do anything that exposes the country to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This sense, as Mackintosh remarks, "has a rightful supremacy over every other principle of human action"; it is summed up in that short but imperious word "ought," so full of high significance. It is the most noble of all the attributes of man, leading him without a moment's hesitation to risk his life for that of a fellow-creature; or after due deliberation, impelled simply by the deep feeling of right or duty, to sacrifice it in some great cause.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

Nobody wants to take a risk with scripts that push the envelope.

I can't put my family at risk. My son already has a respiratory problem. He has asthma.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

I know what my strengths and weaknesses are on the pitch. My duty is to be risk averse.

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

There's risk in everything that you do. It's up to you to measure those risks and do what you want to do.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

People need to take a little bit more risk.

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.