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There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work. -- Sigmar Polke
A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks. -- John Tesh
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. -- Erma Bombeck
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
Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history. -- Niall Ferguson
The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use. -- Ban Ki-moon
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. -- Lisa Bonet
I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that. -- David Carson
There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk. -- Seann William Scott
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases. -- Robert Pozen
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market. -- Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
I think the people that want to fly in space, who want to work in space, who want to go to station, these people realize that there is a risk inherent to what they do. They understand that there are possible off-nominal situations, dangerous situations in space, and there's no insurance against that. -- Roman Romanenko
For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked. -- John Hickenlooper
The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups. -- Tim Bray
In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is, when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. -- John P. Kotter
I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids. -- Michele Bachmann
I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so. -- Mary Landrieu
I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm. -- Foster Friess
Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything. -- Rachael Taylor
It's very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be fearless. When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward. -- Anna Wintour
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. -- Lewis B. Smedes
But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. -- Sarah Dessen
There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk. -- Nora Roberts
If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work. -- Larry Hite
It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does. -- Peter McWilliams
The faster some talents work, the more risk plays into the equation and then the opportunities for injury increases. -- Jim Ross
The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'. -- Paul Virilio
Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. -- David Remnick
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. -- Jesse Jackson
Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk. -- Pedro Almodovar
The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses. -- Mike Pence
Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams. -- Tony Robbins
The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work. -- Hazel Hawke
If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one. -- Ace Antonio Hall
I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk. -- Malcolm Gladwell
For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia]. -- Angelina Jolie
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them. -- Avinash Persaud
Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school. -- Hank Johnson
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear. -- Sue Grafton
I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone. -- Anthony Hopkins
Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work. -- Seth Godin

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