Risk Quotes
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To be alive at all involves some risk.
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When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.
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On oilrigs men who only work an 8-hour day are contemptuously called nine-to-fivers. In stark contrast, women are more likely not to take risks, even when the risks are minimal. What's the message to our sons? Our praise of our sons when they risk physical danger teaches them that a willingness to be physically abused creates love. Abuse-as-love? Yes.
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I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.
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When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.
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Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
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Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.
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The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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I'm not going to risk our precious military resources on an ineffective, unproductive mission.
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If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.
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Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.
