Risk Quotes · Page 117

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

— Daniel Wu

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

— Daniel Kahneman

I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue…

— Vinod Khosla

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk…

— Malcolm Gladwell

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation...

— Paulo Coelho

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

— Mitt Romney

Driving is an activity that carries risk, which can be reduced by following the speed limit and wearing a seat belt.

— Leana S. Wen

I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still…

— Monique Coleman

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young…

— Wilma Mankiller

The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This…

— John Rosemond

... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little…

— Judith M Bardwick

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing…

— Kenneth Anger

Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The…

— Seth Klarman

...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope…

— Mira Grant

A lot of electronic-based musicians give very low-risk performances, and it's fun to hear your favorite band play live on a big…

— How to Dress Well

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk…

— Jewel

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

— Wendy O. Williams

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

— Gary Hamel

I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

— Janet Morris

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will…

— Leo Kottke

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

— Robin S. Sharma

There are some people out there that are ecstatic to make $50,000 a year, and they would never take the risk to…

— Clay Travis

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk…

— Theodore Bikel

Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on…

— Meg Cabot

The greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending.

— Anonymous

“As with all matters of the heart, the odds may not be in our favour but it is the only risk worth…

— Kaushik Ram

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

— Justin Timberlake

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to…

— William S. Burroughs

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

— John Ortberg

“Think of the future. Dream of the future. Live for the future. Risk all. Give all. Exceed all. Win all.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.”

— Patrick O'Brian

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

— Kate Adie

Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power…

— Colette Baron-Reid

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to…

— Danica McKellar

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

— Mohammed Arkoun

“People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.

— Mat Johnson