Risk Quotes - page 15

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds. (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything. View quote
Rachael Taylor
Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution. View quote
Robert Greenwald
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. View quote
Ruben Hinojosa
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? View quote
Raoul Vaneigem
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it. View quote
Reid Hoffman
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it. View quote
Shaun Cassidy
Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens. View quote
Shereen El Feki
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. View quote
Shirley Hufstedler
Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence. View quote
Slash
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights. (Sonia Johnson)
Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all. View quote
Stephen Frears
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. View quote
Steve Lacy
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. View quote
Steve Lacy
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management. View quote
Samuel Wilson
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. View quote
Theodore Bikel
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). View quote
Thomas E. Mann
I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do. View quote
Thomas Jane
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown. View quote
Walt Mossberg
Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this. View quote
Warren Rudman
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering. (Yusef Komunyakaa)
I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid. View quote
Rafael Nadal
The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it. View quote
Wilhelm Steinitz
[Y]ou have expressed my inward conviction, though far more vividly and clearly than I could have done, that the Universe is not the result of chance. ... Lastly, I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world. View quote
Charles Darwin
How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy... And to meet whom did Franklin D. Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama. View quote
Lauren Bacall