Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world. " We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.
Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
When you have something good. . . When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks with it! When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you.
Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.
First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.
Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.
I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.
The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds. . . . I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.
I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.
Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life.
I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.