89 Quotes Tagged: risk

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The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of the day, but the adventure of the special, dimly audible
call that comes to those whose ears are open within as well as without

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

A “rich environment” is a combination platter of novelty, unpredictability, and complexity — three elements that catch and hold our attention much like risk. Novelty means both danger and opportunity. To our forbearers, a strange scent in the wind could be prey or predator, but either way it paid to pay attention. Unpredictability means we don’t know what happens next, thus we pay extra attention to what happens next. Complexity, when there’s lots of salient information coming at us at once, does more of the same.

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

There's no such thing as safety. Only degrees of risk.

Let us find what risks we can measure and these are the risks we should be taking.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)

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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

There are some games you don't get to play unless you are all in.

Jordan Peterson, Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist

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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter Drucker, American business consultant (1909–2005)

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To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk

Photobomb me at your own risk!

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

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