Every intelligence operation carries risks.
Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: ‘Smile, do well in school, don’t take too many risks.’
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak.
I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.
Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.
Antibiotics have serious adverse reactions: diarrhea, anaphylaxis, allergies, rashes. We don’t give these medications without discussing the risks and benefits and only when they’re properly indicated.
When you try to do things outside of the box, you run risks.
If you don’t take risks in your life, you never feel something new, so I taste something new, and I like that.
I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
My motto in life is ‘Take risks;’ you don’t have a voice if you don’t. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That’s what life’s all about.
When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.
I think you make impacts by taking risks.
There’s been a lot talk about football and safety issues. My big thing is the benefits far outweigh the risks.
Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.
There’s a lot of risk involved in acting, and you can’t take the same kind of risks when you have a kid to feed.
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
I’m not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it’s because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you’ve got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you’re constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk. If you sit on the sofa for your entire life, you’re running a higher risk of getting heart disease and cancer.
There is something attractive about taking risks.
In subsidized theater, you are encouraged to take risks. It’s about being imaginative and artistic. That’s the priority. It might not be a success, but let’s try.
You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
I will take the lead in turning risks into opportunities.
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It’s like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy.
I love a lot of the ’70s singers: Pam Grier from the ‘Foxy Brown’ movie, Diana Ross, Tina Turner. They’ve always been able to embrace their hair, and they’ve never been afraid to take risks and go all out and make it thick and fun and a statement at the same time.
When I look around, I see a world of unrealized opportunities for improvements, an abundance of talented people able to take the risks necessary to make improvements, but a shortage of people and investors willing to take those risks.
I take big risks, but I’m not reckless about it.
What’s life without risks? When I made ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam,’ everybody said in India you can never have a husband say that I am uniting my wife with her lover. The male audience would reject it, and it is a male audience and hero-oriented industry.
Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.
After all, as a taxpayer, if I’m acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that’s always a challenge and something that I look forward to.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
I admire artists who really take risks and aren’t afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really cool if my career neared that.
While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving thousands of sick people has its own risks. Gustav also highlighted a critical vulnerability of American hospitals – an inability to withstand prolonged blackouts.
I take risks, but I don’t lose respect for my real self. Because what’s going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can’t go home again?
You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don’t take risks.
Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
I’m not a very patient person. I’ll take those quick risks to see if it’s going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That’s like self-mutilation to me.
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: ‘I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.’
I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
Many Americans abhor paternalism. They think that people should be able to go their own way, even if they end up in a ditch. When they run risks, even foolish ones, it isn’t anybody’s business that they do.
I have always been up for risks, but only because I had full confidence and faith in the vision of my directors.
No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
The more democratic and open a society is, the more it’s exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.
In the modern era, with the rewards the top players have during their career and the risks involved moving into management, more will look at it and say they don’t need it.
I’m prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn’t mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
As an artist, you reflect the world around you. To do that, you must dive in, take risks, fall on your face, win, and sometimes lose a great deal.
Innovation means taking risks, and that is where the private sector can play a role.
I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.
You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.
At Tottenham, I’m asked to take a lot of risks to keep maximum possession of the ball and build from the back.
We live in a world where there are many risks, and it’s high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried about.
