Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions.
Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.
We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.
Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.
One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those standards.
Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
I have to accept risk as a racing driver.
Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.
Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.
Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.
The risk element only came from acknowledging other people's attitudes toward it, and realizing that they considered it to be a risk for me to do.
Our first responders risk their lives to help others. The least we can do is make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs.
Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.
No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.