Risk Quotes - Page 35

• Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.

  Larry Niven

  Blessing, Worst Enemy, Boredom

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• I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death—I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.

  Graeme Simsion

  Wind, Sound, Limits

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Differences, Knowing

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• The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

  Michael Oxley

  Government, Terrorism, Remains

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• Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

  Gayle Forman

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.172, Penguin

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• Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

  Starhawk

  Principles, Ethics, Moral

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• I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Thinking, Safety

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Hurt, Spring

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• Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision." "You wouldn't have done it, I bet." "That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.

  Veronica Roth

  Decision, Done, Rewards

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• Nico drank from the chalice, then offered it to Jason. "You asked me about trust, and taking a risk? Well, here you go, son of Jupiter. How much do you trust me?" Frank wasn't sure what Nico was talking about, but Jason didn't hesitate. He took the cup and drank.

  Rick Riordan

  Son, Talking, Jupiter

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• You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Happy Endings

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• Only the person who risks is truly free

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspire, Persons, Lifts

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• Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences.
  There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend.
  On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Friendship, Business

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• The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

  Sam Zell

  Inspirational, Business, Reality

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Educational, Years

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.381, Seven Stories Press

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• Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

  Eliot Wigginton

  Motivational, Success, Business

  Eliot Wigginton (1986). “Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience”, Doubleday

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• What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Change, Believe, Tomorrow

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• Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I believe it is young people throughout the world who offer us the greatest hope for defeating this deadly pandemic.

  Liam Neeson

  Believe, People, Pandemics

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• To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

  Plutarch

  Courage, Men, Evil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.

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• Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Thinking

  "Minority Report".

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• Success is 99 percent failure.

  Soichiro Honda

  Success, Stress, Failure

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• I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Future, Wish

  "Raw Data: Madonna's Pro-Wesley Clark Letter". www.foxnews.com. January 08, 2004.

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• For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Faces, Surrender

  Address at the University of Washington's 100th Anniversary Program, www.jfklibrary.org. November 16, 1961.

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• Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

  Henry Ford II

  Time, Future, Excellence

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