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Quotes About Risks

She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.
~ Paulo Coelho
People always judge others by taking as a model their own limitations, and other people's opinions are often full of prejudice and fear. Join with all those who experiment, take risks, fall, get hurt and then take more risks. Stay away from those who affirm truths, who criticise those who do not think like them, people who have never once taken a step unless they were sure they would be respected for doing so, and who prefer certainties to doubts.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you think ADVENTURE is Dangerous, Try Routine. It is LETHAL. Be Brave. Take Risks. Nothing can substitute Experience. You have to Take Risks. We will only understand the Miracle of life fully when we allow the UnExpected to happen.
~ Paulo Coelho
Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren't afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes.
~ Paulo Coelho
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.
~ Graeme Simsion
You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insists you do otherwise. Sometimes you got burned. I've signed many times. Roasted once or twice. You have to live with the fire. Because if you start thinking too much or playing safe, you're lost to its wondrous charms forever. You become part of the real world again, the mundane, the ordinary, from where there's no escape. (The Cardinal to Capac Raimi)
~ Darren Shan
The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living one had to accept the risks.
~ Winston Graham
But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...
~ Winston Graham
Commercial interests capitalize upon people's expectations of perpetual health. The exploitation of these expectations creates a market for products which are not only useless and costly but also carry risks. The perception of pain in one's joints, muscles or head has become a target of many different pills.
~ Herbert Benson
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
~ Liam Neeson
The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.
~ Mitt Romney
Climate change and variations particularly impact many aspects of life that are inextricably linked to health: food security, economic livelihoods, air safety, and water and sanitation systems. Gender differences in health risks are likely to be worsened by climate change.
~ Tedros Adhanom
Our confidence in Tesla has grown as we've done research on what ride-sharing potentially could add. It could limit the risks significantly, it's a much more profitable business than electric vehicles.
~ Cathie Wood
Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.
~ John Candy
I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.
~ Lauren Cohan
My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.
~ Newt Gingrich
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
~ Fred Brooks
Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard
~ Tyne O'Connell
Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.
~ Unknown
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
~ Dana Delany
Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
~ Harold Geneen
We cannot yet develop a theory of innovation. But we already know enough to say when, where, and how one looks systematically for innovative opportunities, and how one judges the chances for their success or the risks of their failure. We know enough to develop, though still only in outline form, the practice of innovation.
~ Peter F. Drucker
The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.
~ Philip Roth