Quotes About Risk

people whose blood sugar is on the high end of the "normal range" have a much greater risk for brain shrinkage.12 This ties directly into the story of type 3 diabetes.

As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, even slight elevations of blood sugar that are far below the diabetes range have been shown to significantly increase the risk for the development of untreatable dementia.7

babies who are regularly breast-fed when they are first introduced to foods containing gluten have been shown to cut their risk of developing celiac disease by 52 percent, compared with those who are not being breast-fed.

The results of the study revealed that those individuals in the lowest 10 percent of daily physical activity had a 230 percent increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease compared to those in the highest 10 percent of physical activity. When

What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor.

Funneling anger is risky business. Anger is a powerful fuel, and one could argue that much social change has resulted in no small part because of angry voices. In my half century of living, however, I have seen too many activists become frustrated and worn out—made callous by failed attempts to make change, with their idealistic passion devolving into seething anger, or worse, thick hatred.

Just for fun, have a look at Miami. The nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists calculates that by 2060, a staggering 58.5% of Miami's inhabitable land will be underwater. By 2100, it'll be more like 94%. Miami is going away.

know that walking into a small woodlot," he wrote, "is riskier than walking into a nearby large, extensive forest.

We know that ecological isolation—either by seawater or by other sorts of delimitation—correlates strongly with risk of extinction

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

wildly speculative.

For a teenage girl, finding the balance between childhood fearlessness and adult vulnerability can be tougher than landing a triple axel.

To will is truly to want something, to choose both the goal and the means to goal. This means accepting the work and the risks involved in seeing something through. To wish, on the other hand, is only to be enamored of the goal.

As we become more courageous, getting on with life becomes more valuable than the narcotic comforts of the status quo.

Mark Twain humorously quipped: "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

Let's dance for fear your grace should fall Let's dance for fear tonight is all

Few people win consistently, so the tax situation shouldn't matter. But one overriding thing about gamblers is that they always think they are going to win, despite years of evidence to the contrary.

This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate.

Dictators and tyrants are the ones who lead their people over a cliff.

If it got any closer, I don't know if I could ever let you go. The most beautiful can be the most hazardous, the most vicious.

Where there are kings, there must be the greatest cowards. For men's souls are enslaved and refuse to run risks readily and recklessly to increase the power of somebody else. But independent people, taking risks on their own behalf and not on behalf of others, are willing and eager to go into danger, for they themselves enjoy the prize of victory.

excessive weight in one generation may predispose the next for higher lifetime risk of obesity, apart from genetic inheritance and the tendency of offspring to pick up their parents' lifestyle habits.

Risk is asymmetrical because people tend to run away when things go wrong and crowd together when things go well. That's just human nature.