Optionality Risk Quotes & Sayings

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them. — R. Kelly

I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything. — Lynsey Addario

Tie me, tease me, let your pleasure please me. Hurt me, love me, but please don't ever leave me ... — Pepper Winters

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Iciness enshrouds my body - a foretaste of death's chill. — Peggy Toney Horton

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond. — Tom Shadyac

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence. — Claude Debussy

Confrontation is better than insinuation. — Sunday Adelaja

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything. — Daphne Zuniga

Am I horny enough to hump a bedpost?" Mica asked. "Not quite yet. Should I consult with you first, Doctor?" Sarcasm lay thick and heavy in her voice.
"I believe a consult would be a good idea." Ely nodded with mocking solemnity as Mica lifted herself onto the gurney. "You never know what you may end up hurting if the act isn't done properly. — Lora Leigh

Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office. — Neal Boortz

I closed my eyes and saw the children playing their game again. 'The ease seemed so frightening.' I said. 'Now I see why.'
'What?'
'The ease. Us, the children ... I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery. — Octavia E. Butler

Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me ... I want to be a friend. — Timothy Keller

It's a blessing. It's a curse. It's what you get for saying hello to people. At some point, a good-bye is coming, too. Not just to all the people you love and who love you back, but to the world as well. — Eugene O'Kelly