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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. -- Alexander Pope
The civil service are risk averse. -- Ken Livingstone
I'm not averse to being in big commercial films. -- Sienna Miller
I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street. -- Ben Nelson
We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed. -- Jerry Moran
The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology. -- Nick Harkaway
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. -- Tom Bodett
I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics. -- Rahul Gandhi
Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past. -- Mark McKinnon
The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process. -- Steven Levitt
Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either. -- Julia Sawalha
I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks. -- James MacArthur
There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively easy to take big risks. Make the most of that time, before circumstances make you risk averse. -- Joshua Foer
Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough. -- Eric Betzig
I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them. -- Leila Janah
Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we're saying to the broadcasters is, 'There's a way for you not to put your head in the sand.' -- Charlie Ergen
There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go. -- Justin Cronin
Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken. -- Jennifer Granholm
As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety. -- Heston Blumenthal
And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome. -- Otto Schily
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life. -- B. F. Skinner
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. -- Mary Shelley
Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than being averse to social engagement, introverts become overwhelmed by too much of it, which explains why the introvert is ready to leave a party after an hour and the extravert gains steam as the night goes on. -- Laurie Helgoe
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. -- Terry Eagleton
I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places. -- Tim Ferriss
People who are over-educated become risk-averse. -- Tamara Mellon
I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue. -- Jennifer Garner
Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea. -- Al Swearengen
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. -- Aeschylus
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse. -- George Will
What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish? -- Thomas Gray
Im not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street. -- Ben Nelson
By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space. -- Mike McCurry
I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something. -- Norm MacDonald
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom -- Lord Acton
When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged. -- Morgan Spurlock
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. -- John Dryden
I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists. -- Dave Hickey
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability. -- Samantha Power
If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way. -- Charles Caleb Colton
When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse. -- Teresa Amabile
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. -- Samuel Butler
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. -- John Adams
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well. -- Andrew Weil
I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive. -- Eva Longoria
To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so. -- Julius Charles Hare
One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse. -- Kenneth C. Frazier
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it. -- Trevor Noah
As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom. -- Jeff Vandermeer
In this world of Maya, which is averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our friends for Hari bhajana. -- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential. -- Noreena Hertz
As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water . -- Peter J. Carroll
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile. -- Horace
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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