“You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.” WayWantYearsLooksWholeFunRiskDancingLegsSkiing Author:Bebe Neuwirth
“It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.” WayStillsDifferentEndsHomeRiskDangerFineSoldierPlanesDifferent WaysInjuredBack Home Author:Kevin Powers
“If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.” IfsWayRiskReputationWorriedFirmAggressiveTelecom Author:Xavier Niel
“When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.” WayLastsRiskWillingSeasonsScriptsMy Way Author:Lana Parrilla
“NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.” WayKindNaturalRiskConsequenceInnovationCombinationBureaucracyMonopolyNasaAversionNatural Consequences Author:Burt Rutan
“At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?” IfsWayWritingMeanLittlesMadeRealSufferingBitsProcessNovelRiskLittle BitReal LifeOccasionsEnjoymentDemonPeersVentureWriting Process Author:Michael Cunningham
“It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.” WayDreamLyingPassionLosesPleasureRiskEasierAdvantageFilledMindsetImmenseAvoidingMaterialisticNothing To Lose Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.” WayCareersRiskOne Way Author:Peter Weller
“All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland” WayHas BeensEndsRiskWillingDecentLastingIrelandSettlementNorthern Ireland Author:Tony Blair
“We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.” WayCountryRiskSucceed Author:Jerry Moran
“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy” WayTryingChildrenHas BeensMomentsFeelingsCultureGamesPrayerViewsCitiesBoysTakenRiskOffersMountainOceanWorshipPraiseTablesRefuseSpreadContinuingSummitJoiningSpoiledChorusPsalmsSpoiled ChildrenJoining In Author:N. T. Wright
“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.” IfsWayTryingLightLosesLossCitiesRiskNew YorkDrugPerceptionNoiseSensualLoudNew York CityStimulationMilky WayBright LightsLoud Noises Author:Rene Dubos
“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