The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.
Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.
I knew I really had to put down a good run. I played it safe, and took risks when I could, and I came in the fastest, I guess.
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.
Take a chance! All life is a chance
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.
. . . Your company. . . will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk. . . . . You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the. . . proper standard. . . I would think that you would not sleep at night. . . . I do not think this country will not stand for it.
Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that. ” And Picasso replied, “You will. ” And he was right.
Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.
Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
The world changes! So we're in a situation today where the only policymakers that have flexibility are central banks. But they don't have the instruments! So they've had to experiment, and the more you experiment, the more uncertainty and the higher the risk of collateral damage.
No noble thing can be done without risks.