Quotes About Risk

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

There are conventions for people with serious, boring inventions, but fad inventors need help. You need someone to talk to. You just can't tell your friends you're going to invent a pet rock and mortgage your house to pay for it. It's embarrassing... risky mentally. Your friends think you're crazy.

I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.

Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.

When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it's a dangerous thing.

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

Indian philanthropy doesn't take enough risk.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.

It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.

I could probably make another series of 'Phoenix Nights' or 'Max And Paddy,' but that would just feel like a safe bet.

Phoenix Nights' was really starting to take off. But I was scared to leave my job in case things didn't work out.

I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

If you feel anything weird, immediately call 911 and give them your address because you may not make it past the phone call.

The only thing that was in my mind when we made that first phone call was, 'Is it going to work?' We had all these parts hand soldered together, engineers standing by with the soldering iron - just in case.

Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 million each. Is that enough?

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.