Top 1200 Risk Aversion Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.

Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.

There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

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

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

Our risk systems and processes - we keep investing and improving them.

In truth, humankind has never been at risk of running out of energy.

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

We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

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

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

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

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

In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?

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

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

The problem with a job is that relying on others to give you a living is the biggest risk of all.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

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

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.

A person with a poor mind set is always afraid to take risk.

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

Sequels face the risk of being constantly compared to the first film.

When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.

However much risk we are taking, we can and probably should take more.

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

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

Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well.

If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

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

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

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

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

My career as a model. I was due to go to University. It was a risk but it was the right decision.