Top 1200 Taking Risks Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

People think of a parasite as simply taking money, taking blood out of a host or taking money out of the economy. But in nature it's much more complicated. The parasite can't simply come in and take something. First of all, it needs to numb the host. It has an enzyme so that the host doesn't realize the parasite's there. And then the parasites have another enzyme that takes over the host's brain. It makes the host imagine that the parasite is part of its own body, actually part of itself and hence to be protected. That’s basically what Wall Street has done.

Without risk you can't experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything

When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

That's what Donald Trump said when he starts talking about, "The Second Amendment people might have..." "You're not taking my guns. No matter who you appoint to the court, you're not taking my guns," is all it means, pure and simple. If everybody could just take a breath here and let's get back to who's really doing damage to our country.

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

I think about where I grew up and how I grew up: my dad was making $25,000 a year. Taking a chance wasn't really taking a chance. It was like you were going for something better. To me, there wasn't that much risk involved.

I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal."

I would love to take more risks - have pink hair - but it doesn't look right on me.

If you start worrying about risks, you might as well stay inside the womb.

We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.

I want to be someone who takes risks but also stays engaged by trying new things.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A. But in my senior year, I made it a part of my major.

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

I have more concerns about potential risks and vulnerabilities than most people.

I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have to give Stallone credit. You have to respect him for taking that shot, and taking the violence all the way. He was the first one to do that in a long time. It fricking worked.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

I have to be very aware of the increasing downside risks that threaten the overall global situation.

People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides.

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.'

They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.

Vegas is definitely a place where we can win. We had a good run here last year, and I feel even more confident about the car we're taking this time. We're taking the car that we raced in California two weeks ago, and it was obviously a good car.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

We don't manage money for anyone else. We bear responsibility only for our own risks.

One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.

I'm after joining the 'This Morning' family, so I'm going to be doing a bit of presenting. I'm going to be taking some phone calls, like an agony aunt type thing, I'm going to be taking on some challenges, they want me to do a skydive and drift a car and things.

I do wonder whether the bigger the game is, the more the risks that David Luiz decides to take.

I find it completely irrational to say someone who stands up for life for children is taking the life of adult. It's completely inconsistent with the values of the pro-life movement that are very passionate about protecting life, not taking life.

People like Brel were sensitive and vulnerable; on stage, they dared to take risks.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

Adebayo Oke-Lawal is so talented. He takes risks to make his suits different.

I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.

Too much taking heede is losse. [Too much taking heed is loss.]

I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

Geopolitical impact is going to become one of the big risks for companies which are global.

I think you always need to take new, big risks from a storytelling point of view.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.