Best risk & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Church Risk Streets Happenings Ordinary Sick Accidents Going Out Wounded Ordinary Man

Author:Pope Francis

“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected.”

People Firsts Doe Leader Risk Sacrifice Safe Protected

Author:Simon Sinek

“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.”

People Way Firsts Real Matter Whole Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Realizing Levels Risk Journey First Time Miracle Infinite Intimacy Our Relationship Wondrous Spiritual Journey

Author:Richard Moss

“There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.”

Firsts Bigs Black President Race Focus Risk Possibility Months Republican Six Democratic Clinton Contests Black Women Six Months Qualified Nominations

Author:Barack Obama

“People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.”

People Firsts Humans Care Moving Born Animal Alive Risk Willing Discovery Capacity Affection Caring Surrender Indifference Ties Diminish Armor Family Friends Humans And Animals

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”

Firsts Stills Order Risk Share Fool Genius Sitting Wheels Glances Brilliance Sitting Still

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Trust is a risk game. The leader must ante up first.”

Firsts Games Leader Risk

Author:Irwin Federman

“If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Moving Steps Risk Willing Succeed Method Assuming Charity Saint Resistance First Steps Willing To Try

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.”

Firsts Real Sex Risk Danger Broken Promise Towns Attraction Gambling Expenses Vegas Las Vegas Risk It Broken Promises Visceral Mirages

Book:Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)

Source: Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)

“This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.”

Firsts Kind Force Risk Awareness First Time Tables Filled Insanity Awe Gambling Pulse Gamble Frantic

Author:Paul Auster

“I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.”

Knows Firsts Chance Careers Risk First Time Filmmaker Ambitious Take A Chance Chance And Risk

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“You've got to believe in yourself first. Take risks and don't be afraid to fall.”

Firsts Believe Fall Risk Believe In Yourself Believe In You

Author:Mary Lou Retton

“If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.”

Ifs Firsts Long Enough Interest Forget Risk Madness Revenge Mess Pension Audacity

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“What we've done last night is what I call pushing back the risks..If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that? What can you do to recapitalise yourself? If the bank can't do it, then we'll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders, we'll ask them to contribute in recapitalising the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders.”

Ifs Should Firsts Done Lasts Night Asks Risk Okay Investing Pushing Last Night Shareholders Deposits Pushing Back

Author:Jeroen Dijsselbloem

“I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again.”

Firsts Kind Made Age Felt Millions Records Risk Entrepreneur Boat Release Made It Copies Bells Virgins Mike Retired

Author:Richard Branson

“Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.”

Ifs Firsts May Long Sometimes Seems Fighting Winning Waiting Term Chance Deals Plans Risk Huge Fit Rewards Long Term Overwhelming Take A Chance

Author:Mike Tyson

“A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of sexual confusions, ironic outrage and rage, and the shedding of society's armor to create a female knight in pursuit of a vision. Georgia O'Keeffe is the one woman who was there first in the world of art.”

World Firsts Mean Art Artist Vision Study Risk Female Depth Rage Pursuit Confusion Ironic Historic Knights Outrage Georgia Armor One Woman Depiction Georgia O Keeffe

Author:Sandra Hochman

“There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.”

Firsts Long Pay Known Risk Influence Speech Propaganda Amendments Restraint First Amendment Secured

Author:Warren E. Burger

“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.”

“Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies whose mothers lived near crops when certain pesticides were sprayed. The largest risks were found among pregnant women exposed during the critical first trimester and among those who lived in the same square mile where pesticides were used.”

Source: Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

“Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers.”

Firsts Earth Funny Science Wonder Technology Risk Lows Tests Scientist Atmosphere Bombs Makers Odds Discouraging Blast Atomic Bomb Ignite Nitrogen

Author:Dennis Overbye

“But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts America Political Politics Challenges Wealth Risk Land Percent Serving Rebel Serving Others

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Our first responders risk their lives to help others. The least we can do is make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs.”

Needs Firsts Helping Jobs Can Do Risk Resources Helping Others

Author:Ben Nelson

“My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.”

Years Firsts Parent Grief Risk Willing Flower Sad Things Hotter Going For It

Author:Mike Mills

“Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.”

Firsts Made Film Risk Conditions

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“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.”

Knows World Want Firsts Ends Risk Involved Husband Chosen My Husband End Of The World

Author:Cindy McCain

“We need that same mentality in philanthropy, trying things, taking risks, recognizing the first try, maybe the second try, maybe the third try won't work. But if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually you'll break through and see the kind of impact you were hoping for.”

Ifs Needs Trying Firsts Kind Together Talking Break Risk Thirds Impact Mentality Philanthropy Recognizing Break Through Taking Risks

Author:Steve Case

“I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that old fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win.”

People Thinking Firsts Wells Two Winning Sports Risk Athlete Injury Fascination Doubted

Author:Stacy Dragila

“My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.”

People Ifs Knows Way Firsts Persons Sometimes Character Risk Photograph Disappointment My Way Risk It Character Of A Person

Author:Anton Corbijn

“My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages.”

“Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?”

“Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.”

World Firsts Loses Forget Risk Approach Standards Investing Core Investors Mainstream Strict Backwards Avoidance Quip Buffett Warren Buffet

Author:Seth Klarman

“Warren Buffett likes to say that the first rule of investing is "Don't lose money," and the second rule is, "Never forget the first rule." I too believe that avoiding loss should be the primary goal of every investor. This does not mean that investors should never incur the risk of any loss at all. Rather "don't lose money" means that over several years an investment portfolio should not be exposed to appreciable loss of principal.”

Should Years Firsts Believe Mean Doe Goal Loses Loss Forget Risk Investment Investing Likes Primaries Never Forget Investors Exposed Principal Avoiding Portfolios Buffett Warren Buffet

Author:Seth Klarman

“Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.”

Firsts Film Process Risk Possibility Directors Pages Understood Producers Blank Blank Pages Departing

Author:Alex Abreu

“Most Christians are more than content to live out their lives surrounded by the trappings of our world, rather than to risk losing them in becoming a radical Christian. A radical Christian (by my definition) is one who will put God first in all decisions, even when putting God first is costly. In the business world, this means putting God first even when doing so costs money. That is true freedom - spiritual freedom - as opposed to business bondage.”

“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.”

Firsts Strong Risk

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

“You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.”

Firsts Made Running Faces Fall Individual Risk Please Music Is Pursuit Your Face Please Yourself

Author:Mark Lanegan

“I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.”

Thinking Firsts Hard Stories Understanding Risk Directors First Time Monsters High Risk

Author:Charlize Theron

“The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily dislodged, but I suspect it might have something to do with the turnaround time re: blogging and so on - this sense that there is some essential truth about a first draft that one runs the risk of "ruining" by coming back to it.”

Needs Writing Years Firsts Ideas Stories Might Running Risk Taught Essentials Years Ago Tendencies Sufficient Suspects Coming Back Blogging Rewriting Turnaround

Author:George Saunders

“Life is short and far too fragile. Whatever you dream of doing, begin. Put a first step or a "down payment" on your schedule and make it happen. Create memories. Have fun. Have an adventure. Take a (reasonable) risk. Be audacious. Laugh out loud. See what happens.”

“The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator to file that bill, so that there would be no risk of splitting the vote. The Democrats had about 85% of the Legislature at that time. They could have easily protected their access to the governorship. But they refused to do so. They wouldn't let the bill out of committee.”

Firsts Would Be Running Risk Office First Time Vote Bills Democratic Democrat Access Ran Protected Governors Committees Files Romney Legislature Legislators Massachusetts Splitting

Author:Jill Stein

“I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters in prison or worse. I've seen my colleagues risk their lives and, with increasing frequency, lose their lives in their pursuit of the truth. We are not about to stop doing our jobs because yet another president is unhappy with what he reads or hears or sees on TV news. There is a reason the founders put freedom of the press in the very first amendment to the Constitution.”

“There is always the risk in advocating for democracy that the first people to wake up might not be your team, but that is a risk worth taking. I would rather have citizens I don't agree with organized and active than an oligarchy of people that I agree with.”

People Firsts Might Democracy Risk Team Citizens Wake Up Agree Active Organized Advocating Oligarchy

Author:Naomi Wolf

“The first thing is to accept that theater is an unknown. If you go to a concert, you know the music. If you go to an art show, you can literally see the art on your phone before you see it in person. But with theater, often times people aren't prepared to take risks, even though that's exactly what's great about it.”

People Ifs Knows Firsts Persons Art Shows Accepting Risk Theater Prepared Phones Concerts

Author:Cate Blanchett

“During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.”

Men Inspirational Firsts Risk Danger Periods Heartache Dangerous Things Determinism Rhyming

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

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