Quotes About Risk

risk communication." I don't much care for the term. For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis. Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

They had not done the wild things that had no basis in their understanding of the workings of the body. They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza.

One of the riskiest nations on that list is the United States, where our actions threaten 14 percent of 8,812 assessed plants and animals with extinction and 283 species (3 percent) are known to have gone extinct.

people on average prefer to bet on their own judgment over an equally probable chance event when they consider themselves competent about the event being judged.

Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of writing because it is praised in the classroom or otherwise carries appealing prestige, they are vastly increasing the risk inherent in taking up writing in the first place.

[People] have no jobs, they have horrible education, they have no safety or security, and I say to the African-American community, what the hell do you have to lose?

The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

Always games, baby. But the rules are ours to break.' Julian Harte

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.