quotes about Calculated Risk

“The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.”

“Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!”

“Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.”

“We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that it is free to flow out again. It is also important for Hong Kong's status as a financial centre that there should be a maximum freedom of capital movement both in and out.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 134), March 29, 1963.

“I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.”

“Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s”

“See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity”

Source : Cyndi Lee (2004). “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind”, p.24, Penguin

“When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.”

“You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.”

“Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air....”