#risks

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people. ↗

— Kenneth Anger

#changing #firm #i #lawyer #legal

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#i #i believe #just #life #my life

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#acting #actor #afraid #bad #bad guy

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#democracy #escaping #first #first step #full

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. ↗

— Martha Beck

#arrows #behalf #comes #death #else

A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all. ↗

— Madeline Claire Franklin

#philosophy #risks #life

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. ↗

— Alistair Darling

#cut #deficits #fragile #global #must

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#courage #expedition #how #i #i think

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

#because #business #channels #dropping #many

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. 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

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential