What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don’t want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared. – Michael Fassbender
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. – Paul Tillich
We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm. – Nicholas Stern
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. – David R. Brower
Well, the studios don’t really want to take those risks right off the bat. They’ll take the risk after they’ve seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper. – Nia Long
Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We’re already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks. – Emmitt Smith
The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed. – Gary Weiss
As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions – prime ministers, presidents and chief executives – and so I’m all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere. – Noreena Hertz
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed. – Naomi Wolf
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out. – Nathaniel Philbrick
There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived. – Noam Chomsky
I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U. – George Osborne
Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they’ve ever been before. – Dan Glickman
Television is more of a business. You can’t take as many risks, because there’s so many channels now, and the advertising’s dropping. – Dana Delany
When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected. – David Nevins
If you’re going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it’ll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it’s expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can’t get investors. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
The global financial crisis – missed by most analysts – shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones. – Nouriel Roubini
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. – Gary Ryan Blair
In this case they’re doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That’s a pretty big theme. It’s pretty inspiring. – Mary Stuart Masterson
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. – Eddie Rickenbacker
Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation. – Peter Diamandis
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. – Felix Adler
You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks. – Fareed Zakaria
I sort of feel like if you’re slightly marginalized, you’re hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful. – Marilyn Minter
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising. – Noam Chomsky