Risk Quotes - Page 37

• The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

  Horace

  Power, Fancy, Poet

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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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• If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.71, Diversion Books

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• I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

  Joan Miro

  Courage, Believe, Adventure

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• Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Courage, Teaching, Learning

  "Don Carlos". Play by Friedrich Schiller, 1787.

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• The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

  Al Pacino

  Acting, Who Cares, Doe

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  I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 09, 2014

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• Observing and understanding the social media phenomenon is one thing-leveraging this trend for advertising purposes is quite another. While most companies recognize the value of social media advertising opportunities, not many have figured out how to execute these kinds of campaigns and the unique risks they entail because of the potential that a viral marketing effort can backfire and actually harm a brand.

  Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

  Business, Unique, Opportunity

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• Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

  Donnie Burns

  Dance, Mean, Cutting

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• It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.

  Bo Derek

  Believe, Commitment, People

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• It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

  Winston Churchill

  Acceptance, Government, Slavery

  Speech in House of Commons, 22 Feb. 1906

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• The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Leader, Political

  "NBC: In "Soaring" Speech, Obama "Sounded a Lot Like the Man America First Elected Four Years Ago". Interview with Kristen Welker, www.newsbusters.org. November 7, 2012.

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• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Regret, Grief

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• Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Too Much, Enough

  Mark Twain (2008). “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us.

  Starhawk

  Community, Joy, Sorrow

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• People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

  Rick Pitino

  Self Esteem, People, Self Respect

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• The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Stress, Team

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• If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

  Debi Thomas

  Teaching, Learning, Athlete

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• I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.

  Carmen Policy

  Sports, Thinking, Dumb

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• Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

  Bill Shuster

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Oil

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• Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Cancer, Osteoporosis, Smoking

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• Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

  Sarah Beeny

  Mean, Night, Too Much

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• He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

  Zhuangzi

  Self, Losing, Dignity

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• When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Pieces, May

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