Craig Elliott quotes

A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk
-- Craig Elliott

#Adventure #Thinking #Risk

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.