Quotes About Risk

Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating a hamburger can now make you seriously ill: There is shit in the meat.

The war on foodborne pathogens deserves the sort of national attention and resources that has been devoted to the war on drugs. Far more Americans are severely harmed every year by food poisoning than by illegal drug use. And the harms caused by food poisoning are usually inadvertent and unanticipated. People who smoke crack know the potential dangers; most people who eat hamburgers don't. Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior.

Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Clarity is, indeed, all the more necessary when one essays to lead the reader farther from the beaten path and into wilder territory- Joseph Liouville

Statins, particularly potent ones, induce diabetes in at least 1 of 200 individuals treated.

440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.

The two primary factors in these deaths are nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections11 and medical errors.

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involve various other extreme conditions, such as bicycling on snow and ice and in the dark (van der Plas and Kelly 1998).

1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping higher and higher. The problem was that ... the riders flew off in mid-air because

costs of manufacturer-provided solutions relative to user-provided ones. For example, a user firm that builds a novel process controller to improve its plant operations must pay its own actual costs if the self-built controller fails and ruins expensive

new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping higher and higher. The problem was that ... the riders flew off in mid-air because there was no

Hoe pathetic is it that I'd rather risk death that face the dead?

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to time, you're not pushing yourself. And if you're not pushing yourself, you're coasting.

when it comes to love there is nothing so cowardly as a safe compromise. Life should be an adventure. There should be thrills. Risks.

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk more.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.