Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.
We look at all the polls, not just the Gallup Poll. So, it's kind of like if you have, you know, four out of five doctors agree that reducing cholesterol reduces your risk of a heart attack, Gallup is like the fifth doctor.
I'm willing to go through a full body scan or anything else you need to. What I am offended by is the absolute unwillingness of Obama's administration. Callista and I did a movie called "America at Risk: The War with No Name," where we outlined - who are the people who've been terrorists in the last three or four years? They're all males. They're all young. They're all fairly identifiable in other ways. So we're going to a point - we're going to have a full body scan of an 83-year-old nun from Des Moines because we don't want to be honest about who our enemies are?
A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent. . . This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
For me. . . it was always about the challenge of making this voyage. . . It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.
As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you. )
All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.
The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. Its a fantastic model that eliminates risk for small business owners and puts designers on equal footing.
Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.
I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people to do things that maybe they thought weren't possible.
Life is a series of highs and lows. The trick is to tip the balance in your favor by following your heart and taking some risks.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream
I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.
You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.
I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take big risks on the page, you should make big mistakes, you should be excessive at times. I let myself do as a writer what I probably would be less likely to allow as an editor.
The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways
