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Risk Quotes


"First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one."


"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."


"I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it."
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"We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."


"You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!"


"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"


"Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk."


"Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky."


"Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them."


"Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances."


"The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do."



"If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land."


"The biggest problem which is ever than is from the parents by saying "Don't give your money to the kids" or something like this. People must learn to risk, to make risks, not to be people which to play safety. If it is safety where is adrenaline? Where is the mess?? Where is the curiosity?? Where is the reward after all done??Where are the challanges which change your way of thinking?? Where are the lessons???Parents should teach their child or children about safety and about the risk. "They must say to them that to make risk is the part of the proccess!"


"If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear."


"For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it."


"Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great."


"The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk."


"It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life."


"Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes."


"You can't fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly."


"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"


"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."


"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."


"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."


"And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded."


"Any time you put yourself on the line, you risk (and maybe fear) failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid-none of which are comfortable."


"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."


"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."


"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."
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