Quotes About Risk

Los sueños son muy peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y a veces nos consumen completamente.

The trouble in our society is that everyone wants drugs that are free from risk and, as you and I both know, they don't exist and never will.

Het is een kwestie van durven, meer niet. Dat geldt voor alle kunst, dus ook voor die van het leven

To admit what you see endangers principles.

BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been

They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.

Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Courage, however, may also be explained as a readiness to meet ills that threaten at the moment, in order to avoid greater ills that lie in the future; whereas cowardice does the contrary.

Casar-se de maneira geral significa colocar a mão dentro de um saco sem ver o que há dentro dele e esperar tirar uma enguia de um emaranhado de serpentes.

El azar reparte las cartas pero nosotros las jugamos.

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

That a woman that they had already damned, now had little left to lose, and could therefore be dangerous.

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken.... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness.

Wilson pointed out angrily that even children are permitted to take more risks than the elderly. They at least get to have swings and jungle gyms.

We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns - for both patients and society - and it can be hard to decide what do do about them.

The risk of a fatal car crash with a driver who's eighty-five or older is more than three times higher than it is with a teenage driver

even children are permitted to take more risks than the elderly.

One American in seven has no coverage, and one in three younger than sixty-five will lose coverage at some point in the next two years. These are people who aren't poor or old enough to qualify for government programs but whose jobs aren't good enough to provide benefits either.

Yet given how much surgery is now done—Americans today undergo an average of seven operations in their lifetime, with surgeons performing more than fifty million operations annually—the amount of harm remains substantial. We continue to have upwards of 150,000 deaths following surgery every year

The companies' most effective tactic, however, was simply to put out the goods and let surgeons play.

Thinking about averting plane crashes in 1935, or stopping infections of central lines in 2003, or rescuing drowning victims today, I realized that the key problem in each instance was essentially a simple one, despite the number of contributing factors.