Pastoral Resources

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

To walk across the street is a risk.

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.

I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

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.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.