Risks Quotes
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Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.
Ellis Paul Torrance
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The real question is how do you survive at the same time you pose those risks? Because you need to survive. And it seems to me that you survive in community or in solidarity, with others who are taking the risk with you.
Judith Butler
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Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.
Amy Poehler
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Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.
Cara Santana
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To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.
Plutarch
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
Erica Jong
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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.
Afia Nathaniel
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I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
Erol Alkan
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We've already seen in the Windrush scandal how the Conservatives' hostile environment checks can destroy the lives of people who have every right to be in the UK. The government's chaotic approach to Brexit risks a repeat of that scandal for EU citizens.
Edward Davey
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Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.
Sarah Parish
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The ACE study group concluded: “Although widely understood to be harmful to health, each adaptation such as smoking, drinking, drugs, obesity is notably difficult to give up. Little consideration is given to the possibility that many long-term health risks might also be personally beneficial in the short term. We repeatedly hear from patients of the benefits of these ‘health risks.’ The idea of the problem being a solution, while understandably disturbing to many, is certainly in keeping with the fact that opposing forces routinely coexist in biological systems. . . . What one sees, the presenting problem, is often only the marker for the real problem, which lies buried in time, concealed by patient shame, secrecy and sometimes amnesia—and frequently clinician discomfort.
Bessel van der Kolk
