Top 60 Downside Quotes

I’m scared about everything. I’m an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.

The big upside to being captain is it’s a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

It’s only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there’s a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it’s a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn’t pave the world – it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

I’ve had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It’s a frustrating game, that’s the downside of this business – the rejection.

That’s the downside of playing for one of the top teams: that no matter how well you play, sometimes you have to step aside.

I do think… gene technology has got real benefits to offer, which will have maybe an occasional downside, but I suspect not very many.

The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with ‘Wish You Were Here’ is that we’re shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it’s very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway.

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico’s status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it’s a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up ‘locational privacy.’

We’ve got the greatest Premier League, greatest domestic competition in the world but the downside of that is we’ve got fewer and fewer English players playing in that league.

For ‘Downside of Bliss,’ I drew upon my own personal experiences in order to play Bliss: a penniless, single mother who is estranged from her father and diagnosed with cancer.

I now get recognised in the street, which is strange, but I don’t go out as much as I used to. It’s not a downside; I just have to be a bit more private.

I’m attracted to working with comedians because they don’t have that stars’ idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they’re always addressing the camera too much.

There’s a downside to glamour and since I know that, I think that’s why I have been able to stay grounded.

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that’s it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don’t leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

There’s no real downside to any sort of work that I do. I’m all so grateful for it, but I wouldn’t say that animated work is just a walk in the park. It is easy, it’s really fun, but I don’t know why I really stress myself out every time I’m about to go in.

Credit-default swaps remedied the problem of open-ended risk for me. If I bought a credit-default swap, my downside was defined and certain, and the upside was many multiples of it.

Winning the title in my first season at City was a dream come true, but the downside was not being selected for Spain’s World Cup squad.

Take calculated risks and limit your downside.

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it – getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you’ve to take the downside.

Being a swimsuit model that talks so much on Twitter… everyone thinks that I could definitely pull back. You kind of open yourself up to all the criticism. That’s definitely a big downside to this whole world. How can you complain about people critiquing your body when you’re literally like, ‘Look at my body!’

The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

There was definitely no time in grades 11 and 12 to do any other sports. That was one downside; I really enjoyed playing other sports.

Being bootstrapped is great. You own 100 percent of it. But the downside is that you aren’t able to move as fast as you want.

Portland is a permanent road course built in a beautiful state, which is for me a fantastic area for many reasons. The downside is that the weather is so unpredictable that it’s not uncommon to start the race on the dry and end with the rain as it happened to me in 1996 when I won my first Champ Car race.

Doors opened for me because of who I am. But the downside is, there is way way too much expectation from me, much more than there would have been if I were from outside the film industry.

That’s the downside of total creative control: You’re isolated and after a while you can lose a little perspective. But I’ve taught myself not to listen to my own self-doubt.

It is a tenet of my investment style that, on the subject of common stock investment, maximizing the upside means first and foremost minimizing the downside. The deleterious effect of permanent capital loss on portfolio returns cannot be overstated.

I used to work at my dad’s peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you’d have to get picky to have a downside.

I don’t act because I love doing it, I act because it’s my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It’s a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different… the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.

I have been fortunate in my career to play a lot of lead roles. The downside to that is I don’t have a life outside of the show. I go on lockdown even with my wife if the show is really difficult and I am having vocal problems.

There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.

It’s very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.

The downside of dabbling in different industries is that you don’t have your roots anywhere and you don’t know where your real demand is.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

The downside of word processing – it’s quite possible to never end a work-in-progress.

The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you’re going to be asked to play. I could be out to dinner or having a drink at a bar, and someone could just give me a violin, and I’ve got to be ready to play.

You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.

The downside to defining everything Chinese as different than American is that all things Chinese then become exotic.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

My view is that the U.S. market will eventually join the emerging markets on the downside because if you take a bearish view about emerging economies, you cannot be too optimistic about the U.S. because for many U.S. corporations, 50 percent or more of their profits come from emerging economies.

We spent a year touring the world and it wasn’t until it was over that we truly appreciated the upside and downside of our success.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don’t need them to know about you – you need them to know about your work.