Quotes About Risk

I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.

Computers are dangerous.

A lot of concerts are just too safe.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

It was the script of 'VRV' that brought Gautham Karthik on board. He would not risk his career if he wasn't confident about the film.

If you don't take risks, you won't be able to do anything. I was confident I could use my experience to change and improve the way Macau worked.

Connecting with fans online can be the make or break or some artists, and I think that's a bit dangerous.

Going the bold way somehow has a very negative connotation in Bollywood.

If I have a combination of calm and fear, I access mental states way beyond normal consciousness. That's why I choose to do scary things.

When I do stuff where death could be a real consequence, it makes me want to live right.

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.

Financial regulators should be particularly attentive to the financial consequences of their actions.

I have seen the consequences of what can happen in boxing.

All of the good things that surround art - you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster. I think that's what gives it its artistic sparkle is that it really could crash and burn at any moment because you're going out on a limb and being very personal.

I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

If you're going to take a risk as a comic, make sure it's surrounded by other things that you're certain are funny.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

It takes a lot of guts to pull up stumps from a successful career, surrounded by the people you love.

Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.

People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.