Quotes About Risk

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack.

I aint shot nobody yet, but I would. You never know who's gonna creep up behind you.

Why would a vampire create a younger vampire if there was a possibility the young one might end up destroying the old one?' Stephin stared. 'If you can explain to me how this is different from parenting in general I might know how to answer that.

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel:

any action predicated solely on DNA sequence seems to me to be a high-risk endeavor, prone to specious failure.

Failure is always an option.

By looking at individual years in that forecast we can now see for the first time, there is a risk of a temporary, and I repeat temporary, exceedance of the all-important 1.5C threshold level set out in the Paris climate agreement.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good. Day after day this is what Jesus did. It is called trust. He calls us: 'Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly" (Matthew 11:30, MSG)

Transformation and healing always begin in a place of desire. There needs to be some deep inner willingness to take a risk on Jesus and begin again and again.

In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good.

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

Individuals who continually play it safe in life, taking the path of least resistance and risk, deny themselves rich opportunities for personal growth. Some

When army review its forces more than 6 months and not attacking the enemy, know it is a danger to his people

risky launches are. As if intoxicated by their own sense of self-confidence, they plunge ahead, often committing many of the same mistakes that have doomed countless launches before them. They end up adding to the dismal failure statistics.

The big-ticket hardware folks invest the capital, take all the risks—which are huge—suffer the losses and the write-downs, and then let somebody else capture the business that has predictability, lower price sensitivity, higher margins, recurring revenue, and the opportunity to create an ongoing customer relationship, because the frequency of purchase is ten times greater than the frequency of the initial transaction. "So

So try this nightmare exercise: Imagine disaster. Ask why you failed; list all the possible reasons. Then do your best to counter those mistakes before they have a chance to occur. Most launches die from self-inflicted wounds. It means that if you're willing to take a clear-eyed look at the forces seemingly conspiring to derail your next launch, you'll probably find that the most powerful factors are actually under your control.

The only person you can reliably kill with a high-power 9mm is yourself,

With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker or an actor is the ability to take risks, and the ability to tell stories that might not otherwise be told.

I believe in taking risks and trying new things, both in my personal life and in my career.

As an actor, you have to be open to the experience, and you have to be willing to take risks and be vulnerable.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —ANAïS NIN

A little lift meant a little fall; a bigger lift, a bigger fall.