Best 2699 quotes in «risk quotes» category

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are minorities, Native Americans, immigrants, and women living in poverty and who speak little or no English.

Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.

Remember that quitting is always an option, and it's the only one that guarantees a predictable result. Stay in the fight and everything is at risk. Quit and you know what will happen NOTHING!

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in a loving, sane family. You could take a risk like that. But in my family we didn't go around saying we loved each other. We went around screaming at each other. So what do I do, when you say you love me? I go and undermine it.

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).

Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.

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

Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

Risk is the most intense road.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

"Risk means more things can happen than will happen." It is not standard deviation. It is not variability. It is this sense that the future events are highly variable and unknowable that gives us the best sense for risk.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

Risk is not inherent in an investment; it is always relative to the price paid. Uncertainty is not the same as risk. Indeed, when great uncertainty - such as in the fall of 2008 - drives securities prices to especially low levels, they often become less risky investments.

Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process.

Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.