1,222 Quotes About Risk

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

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.

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.