Risk Quotes
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Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.
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Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.
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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self
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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
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It isn't a killer deal to drop 2 percent. Only if it's a huge holding. But the bigger the holding, the more market risk there is. I wouldn't bank on that.
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The Bush administration knows everything about him and they desperately want him in there. They aren't taking a risk. They know he's an ideologue.
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Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'
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Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.
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We should not make the mistake of equating the E.U. with Europe. Outside the E.U., we wouldn't cease to be Europeans. But, an exit would definitely risk losing those opportunities for our children while growing no similar opportunities elsewhere.
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I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.
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Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
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I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree.
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The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.
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You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.
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There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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The first time I heard Robert Anda present the results of the ACE study, he could not hold back his tears. In his career at the CDC he had previously worked in several major risk areas, including tobacco research and cardiovascular health. But when the ACE study data started to appear on his computer screen, he realized that they had stumbled upon the gravest and most costly public health issue in the United States: child abuse. He had calculated that its overall costs exceeded those of cancer or heart disease and that eradicating child abuse in America would reduce the overall rate of depression by more than half, alcoholism by two-thirds, and suicide, IV drug use, and domestic violence by three-quarters. 20 It would also have a dramatic effect on workplace performance and vastly decrease the need for incarceration.
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It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.
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I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is they served a number of different purposes. First and foremost, they were a tool which initially was seen as being useful in managing the bank's own risk management challenges.
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Chip is the risk-taker. He's all about the big picture but with a get-it-done attitude, and sometimes I'd rather play it safe and really focus my energy on the details.
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Conventional dipping tank. Not wanting his aristocratic bovines to risk injury.
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I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.
