“There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.” LevelsRiskFinePollutionExposureParticlesReductionThreshold Author:Gina McCarthy
“Life is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the way, one of the real miracles occurs when we realize that what really matters is to deepen our relationship to ourselves and that to do this we have to enter a spiritual journey. We have to discover anew, or for the first time, our own relationship to the Infinite. We must begin to risk trusting a whole new level of intimacy with ourselves, life and the people whose lives we touch.” PeopleWayFirstsRealMatterWholeSpiritualLife IsSpiritualityRealizingLevelsRiskJourneyFirst TimeMiracleInfiniteIntimacyOur RelationshipWondrousSpiritual Journey Author:Richard Moss
“By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you're learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available.” WellsHardSchoolLevelsMistakeRiskEmotionalDutyIntellectualAvailableHeavyExposingBest EducationExposing YourselfSchool Of Hard Knocks Author:Gifford Pinchot
“If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.” IfsKnowsMindRunningLevelsCompassionPracticeRiskMouthsGreat RiskTalk Is Cheap Author:Gelek Rimpoche
“If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.” IfsLongWholeUseTogetherTermLevelsResultsFiveRiskTalentSweetCharityProfitExtremesHumanitarianLong TermDisadvantages Book:Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World Source: Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World
“The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.” HouseWhiteLevelsMoralGreaterRiskMilitaryAuthorityHighestDefenseDepartmentWhite HouseTroopsGlobesOur TroopsMoral Authority Author:Lawrence Korb
“We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident. . . . It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks.” LevelsRiskHeavyAccidentsBoardsReviewsGenesisScrutinyNasaColumbia Author:Donald E. Brownlee
“My view is that an investor is better off knowing a lot about a few investments than knowing a little about each of a great many holdings. One's very best idea's are likely to generate higher returns for a given level of risk than one's hundredth or thousandth best idea.” LittlesIdeasGivenLevelsViewsKnowingRiskReturnHigherInvestmentGreat MenInvestorsBetter OffHolding On Author:Seth Klarman
“One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.” HumansMeanChildrenCareParentLevelsRoomsStudyRiskBabyActivityQuietEssentialsAssumingDareAnxiousElectricOutletsMundaneForksHigh LevelHuman ActivityVigilanceToddlerGenomeStrangling Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.” MadePlayAbleSportsLevelsRiskNfl Author:Troy Polamalu
“The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.” WorldFirstsHumansTwoAgeBornLevelsRiskInformationDangerLowsDecadesMedicalExpertsPriestsInsightfulAtomsRadiationDrsCultSecrecyConcealedResearchersAtomic BombHiroshimaAudaciousLow LevelHuman Health Author:Stewart Udall
“Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . . requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, 'Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.' Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.” PeopleKnowsEndsTodayLevelsResultsPowerfulOur LivesRiskAchieveProduceHabitSkillsScaryFormerWinnerUncomfortableLeapLoserQuantumWorth ItCongressmanReally PowerfulNew HabitsQuantum Leap Author:Jack Canfield
“Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?” ShouldHumansChildrenStillsGovernmentLevelsKnownRiskDangerousEnvironmentalDecadesCaliforniaPollutionGrainLinkedPotatoesBananasExposingHigh RiskLeukemiaEpa Author:Al Meyerhoff
“Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.” WayMayBookIdeasStoriesShowsLevelsIssuesOur LivesRiskShareInformationTelevisionDepthBackgroundsReportsShockNew WaysSuperficialTelevision Shows Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“It seems evident that the more profound, helpful, and meaningful way to protect people is to dismantle the morality code, and grant people the freedom to openly organize without legal risks - rather than attempting to legally regulate everything, which will always enact social exclusions at some level.” PeopleWaySeemsSocialLevelsRiskMoralityProtectProfoundMeaningfulCodeHelpfulGrantsOrganizeEvidentAttemptingExclusion Author:Terre Thaemlitz
“People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.” PeopleIfsImportantCertainDiesFallLevelsBreakRiskBloodPressureHipsFrailtyBlood PressureHigh RiskMammograms Author:Atul Gawande