If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

When any part of the Station is moved from its designated location to do a repair, we really risk losing things.

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

I've always been a risk taker. When I told my mum I was quitting my job to be a bobsledder, she wasn't surprised.

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It`s really worth it.

I always think that when we actors talk about the films that we've done we run the risk of destroying everything.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

Every sport has dangers, and it's a risk we all take, but that's why people need to give us the credit we deserve.

The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

Luxembourg is such a small country that we always have to reinvent ourselves and take on a certain risk to succeed.

I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

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