We don’t grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. – James E. Burke
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation. – Ken Stott
I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks. – Jack Kilmer
I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because that’s the place I feel the most comfortable – those are the risks I want to take. – Lizzy Caplan
When I made ‘Terminator 3,’ I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting. – Jonathan Mostow
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks. – Kate Adie
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks. – Kunal Nayyar
I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn’t take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable. – Laurie Lee
At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level. – Laurent Fabius
If you’re not out there taking some risks, if you’re just coasting along with your wins, then you’re not really trying. – Ron Howard
I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life – we all take risks. – Ronnie Wood
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it’s actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it’s something that I quite enjoy attempting to do. – Richard Dawkins
Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks. – Raghuram Rajan
There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that ‘Homeland’ does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters. – Raza Jaffrey
As a co-chair of the State’s 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring. – Rick Larsen
There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded. – Robert F. Engle
I’ve always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. – Renee Fleming
In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy. – Renzo Rosso
If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining. – Richard Dawkins
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection. – Richard von Weizsaecker
The issue that Mr. Trump is talking about and which, really, frankly, I expect the media should be talking about is protecting the American homeland from national security risks and terrorists. – Paul Manafort
More than anything, Play Cloths has taken risks in regards to the pieces of clothing that we’re even creating. We started out as straight T-shirts. It was just T-shirts and a couple cool things. Now, it’s leisure pants, it’s all types of clothing. We’re evolving even with fashion trends on a super high level. – Pusha T
On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can’t be figuring things out on the day. – Rami Malek