Risk Quotes - Page 36

• An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

  John Ralston Saul

  Teaching, Learning, Individual

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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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• Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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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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• A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Giving, Soul

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• Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on.

  Amy Poehler

  Hilarious, Hurt, Mean

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• Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

  Cary Grant

  Laughter, Humor, Actors

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

  Melinda Gates

  Thinking, Backyards, Looks

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• The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud
  is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.
  We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Bud, Painful

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• What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Running, Heart

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide effective market discipline Facing prices that are too low, systemically important firms will take on too much risk."

  Gary H. Stern

  Philosophy, Discipline, Political

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• I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Music, Regret, Thinking

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• We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

  Dick Black

  Nature, Losing, Couches

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• By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money. Their currency may depreciate, but the risk of default is absent.

  George Soros

  Country, Government, Creating

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• Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.

  Joanna Macy

  Peace, Home, Self

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• The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

  Simone Weil

  Country, Power, Men

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• Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

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• Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe.

  Lisa Nowak

  Space Flight, Safety, Goal

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• The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Travel, Real

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America".

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• For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

  Kevin Rudd

  Fire, Rivers, Dying

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• Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

  Charles Jaffe

  Business, Moving Forward, Turtles

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• A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels.

  Ross Garnaut

  Change, Humanity, Fossils

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