Quotes About Risk

Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk--I am as good as dead already.

Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.

Progress always comes at a cost, but if we fear the unknown, we will never get anywhere. Nothing in life is risk-free.

I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, 'Ok...I'll be part of this world'.

Those with the highest alpha-carotene had a 39 percent decrease in risk of death compared to those with the lowest alpha-carotene.

Hip fractures and osteoporosis are more frequent in populations in which dairy products are commonly consumed and calcium intakes are commonly high.

The best and largest cohort studies in nutritional epidemiology, such as the Adventist Health Study, the Iowa Women's Health Study, the Nurses' Health Study, the Physicians' Health Study, and the CARE Study all confirm that eating nuts and seeds is associated with a 30–50 percent decreased risk of CAD death, primarily sudden cardiac death, and dramatic decreases in all-cause mortality.

Another study demonstrated that for every 100 grams of white rice consumed per day, breast cancer risk increased 19 percent, whereas the same amount of whole grain, brown rice, or beans had almost the direct opposite effect.

Twenty-eight servings of vegetables per week decreases prostate cancer risk by 33 percent, but just three servings of cruciferous vegetables per week decreases prostate cancer risk by 41 percent.9 • One or more servings of cabbage per week reduces the occurrence of pancreatic cancer by 38 percent.10

Individuals with a ratio of total to HDL cholesterol higher than 4 are considered to have an exceptionally high risk of developing heart disease. So, the higher your HDL cholesterol, the better. However, people with exceptionally low LDL cholesterol do not have to worry about their HDL level. You don't need the garbage collectors when there is no garbage.

Fat deposits around your waist are a greater health risk than extra fat in other places, such as the hips and thighs.

Most Americans are not aware that the diet they feed their children guarantees a high cancer probability down the road.13 They don't even contemplate that eating fast-food meals may be just as risky (or more so) as letting their children smoke cigarettes.14

Several studies illustrate the dangers of giving insulin to the adult diabetic. In one such study, when diabetic patients were given insulin, compared to those given metformin (Glucophage), the risk of death from heart attacks tripled.5

In one recent study, women who ate at least 10 grams of fresh mushrooms each day (equivalent to just one small mushroom) had a 64 percent decreased risk of breast cancer.

a risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.

Deep down, very few of us want safety to suffocate freedom.

If travelling through a malarial region take an adequate supply of anti-malaria tablets. You must start taking these two weeks before your journey, so that resistance is in the system before you arrive in the risk area, and should keep taking them for a month after your return.

Remember, there's sacrifice involved in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it.

It's more dangerous to make friends when you're old than when you're young.

Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.

The three of us are always in danger," said Arlo. "That's sort of our thing.

It was like rushing forward in the dark forest without knowing what danger lurked in front of my face.

If your library is not unsafe, it probably isn't doing its job.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.