Top 1200 Taking Risks Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy.

The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

No Minnesotan should ever experience preventable health risks from breathing polluted air or from drinking unsafe water.

If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society.

My mother was from an entrepreneurial family and very creative. She always pushed me to take risks, to do things I wouldn't have thought of.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

Coming from a family of law enforcement officers, I have great respect for the work that they do and the risks they take to ensure our safety.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

There's been a lot talk about football and safety issues. My big thing is the benefits far outweigh the risks.

Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.

There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

And when they start riding a lot of them have full time jobs and are taking vacation days to get by. All of a sudden it becomes so addictive because you're out there with a bunch of women just like yourself, well educated, taking your vacation days, not making any real money, but we're having a blast. And that's US cycling.

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

I admire actors such as Laura Linney, Cate Blanchett and Andrea Riseborough, who take risks and fight to not be defined by their gender.

I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.

For me, it's about risk taking, taking things in new directions. Because every single time, no matter how much you learn, you can never say, "Okay, I did the hardest thing I ever did. I'm prepared now. Now it's going to be easy." Of course it's not easy.

Taking ownership of your happiness has two aspects: Accepting that being happy is up to you and that you have the ability and power to be happier by changing your habits. Taking "response-ability": responding to all the events in your life in a way that supports your happiness.

Be thankful for all successes, lose your ego, take risks, fail fast, and if you don't absolutely love what you do, run!

My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks

Perspective taking is taking on the perspective of others. It's what we do anytime we buy a gift for someone else ("What would they like?"). So it means breaking the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") and instead, acknowledges that others may not want what you want.

I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I take, I use C4, the pre-workout mix. I try to keep it as basic as I can, but I think I would shrink and disappear if I stopped taking protein shakes.

If we start treating addiction as a public health issue, with more compassion, and without the criminal element, our society will be better off and violence and public safety will improve as a result. We'll also be taking a big step in taking down the prison-industrial complex that disproportionately harms communities of color.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

Virender Sehwag can tear any attack apart. He is audacious, takes risks and has fantastic hand/eye co-ordination.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.

[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid photographs it is in this respect like a painting which takes a long time where you are very aware of what you are doing in the process. Exposure is only the final act of making the image as a photograph.

True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don't be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream.

Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act.

The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work with the right kind of people.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had an opportunity as a young man to witness the change that was taking place in Harlem, the exodus of white folks leaving Harlem, which I thought was a very cohesive situation. But they felt that they needed to leave.

I want to reduce my risks as much as possible and hopefully be able to go to the World Cup fit, ready and healthy.

I always tell people that this is a really simple deal: Work hard. If you work hard, follow what's required and set your priorities right, then you can really perform without taking shortcuts. If you're taking shortcuts, you can't be free.

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in the process of taking a fresh look at the whole issue of morality. The only decline that's taking place - and it's about time - is in the old puritanical concept that sex is equated with sin.

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

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.

The influx of families and unaccompanied children at the border poses many risks, including grave public health threats.

If you don't take risks, you won't be able to do anything. I was confident I could use my experience to change and improve the way Macau worked.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

I don't like to take risks or jump into things before I fully understand how they can benefit me or my situation.

This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.

The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

In subsidized theater, you are encouraged to take risks. It's about being imaginative and artistic. That's the priority. It might not be a success, but let's try.

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.