Anthony Giddens Quotes

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Anthony Giddens

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• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

  

  Halsey
  • Existence

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Risk

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Existence

• I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Risk
  • Year
  • Potential

• I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Love
  • Business
  • Risk

• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Why
  • Existence
  • Behavior

• A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Risk

• I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Balance

• Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Risk
  • Insurance

• I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. ... And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Family
  • War

• 'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • God
  • Risk

• ‘Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Country
  • Money

• Odds that you will die at some point in your life: 1 in 1. Thus, you might say the greatest, most significant, and universal risk factor in death is being born. This implies that it really isn't very helpful to approach the subject of risk by focusing on how we might die; rather, it's far wise to consider how we should live and what risk we will live with.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading. Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Book
  • Law
  • Reading

• Life is a risk.

  

  Carmelo Anthony
  • Life
  • Risk

• Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

  

  Eric Liu
  • People
  • Experience
  • American

• Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Today
  • Small
  • Nation

• If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

  

  Hayley Mills
  • Magic
  • Door
  • Theater

• I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Opportunity
  • Growth
  • Failure

• Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Risk
  • Existence
  • Apocalypse