Quotes About Risk

I don't need to know. So neither do you." LB snorted. "Funny how the people who say that are never the ones with parachutes on.

if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and – who knows – perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

She suspected that she was quite like Helena Kraft in that she was capable and ambitious and wanted to get a pat on the back from her superiors. That was not necessarily always a good thing though. With that tendency, if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and — who knows, perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

So the very instant we create a superintelligence we lose control, is that right?" "The risk is that everything we know about the world will cease to be relevant, and it'll be the end of human existence.

if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself.

Încrederea exagerat? în propria capacitate ne expune riscurilor ?i ne împiedic? s? evolu?m. Îndoiala de sine joac? un rol decisiv pentru maturitatea noastr? intelectual?.

Cu ce te ajut? s? stai ?i s? strigi "idio?ilor, pro?tilor, ne u niciun pericol", când to?i ceilal?i fug s?-?i salveze via?a?

Violence can command respect. Violence can silence and intimidate, and ward off risks and threats. But violence can also cause chaos and a whole chain of unwanted consequences.

?? s?ng, th?a Giáo s?, con ng??i ta không nên kiên ??nh hoàn toàn, mà ph?i m?o hi?m ?i theo nhi?u h??ng môt lúc

You can't eat tomatoes because they're tainted with deadly salmonella. First there was tainted lettuce. Now, tainted tomatoes. Who would have thought that the healthiest part of a B.L.T. would be the bacon?

What are we playing for? This needs to be worth my while." "Honour?" Steve suggested. "Let me know if your universal translator got that one. I know it may be a tough concept for your species.

The Arab progeny here have scanty beards, and many grow to a very great height—tall, gaunt savages; while the Muscatees have prominent nose-bridges, good beards, and are polite and hospitable. I wish I had some of the assurance possessed by others, but I am oppressed with the apprehension that after all it may turn out that I have been following the Congo; and who would risk being put into a cannibal pot, and converted into black man for it?

It very naturally occurred to him that Dr. Livingstone might have felt a wish during life to be buried in the same land in which the remains of his wife lay, for it will be remembered that the grave of Mrs. Livingstone is at Shupanga, on the Zambesi. All this was put before the men, but they steadily adhered to their first conviction—that it was right at all risks to attempt to bear their master home, and therefore they were no longer urged to bury him at Kwihara.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

To not risk is to not learn. Or to state this more positively; risk taking can make one open to learning and can ensure that this learning is retained.

To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end of the runway and, straining against its brakes, prepares for takeoff. The very danger in the situation is inseparable from the exhilaration it yields. You are strapped into your seat now, there is no way back, you have delivered yourself into the power of modern technology. You might as well lie back and enjoy it.

If you're running around on bald tires, it doesn't take a special nail.

Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.

Avoid surgery and anesthesia after recent MI

Life in the movie business is like the… beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.