Quotes About Risk

Youre not exactly going to do a prank on the hardest player at your football club, when you know hes going to give you a wallop.

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.

One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

I try to be precise with my passes but take some risks as well.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... much... to go on to the next level.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

We ship owners and our predecessors, all the way back to the dawn of history, operating in majority on private initiative and at our own risk, have been linking the world together much more effectively than governments ever managed to do or will likely ever be capable of doing.

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

When I worry about risks, I worry about the biggest ones, particularly those that are difficult to predict - the ones I call small but deep holes. While odds are you will avoid them, if you do fall in one, it's a long way down and nearly impossible to claw your way out.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'

I don't think anyone can ever predict a phenomenon. It's not something you can bank on.

Football is so difficult to predict.

One can't predict a film's success or failure.

You can't predict anything in T20s.