Quotes of: Risk-management Keyword

Many people close themselves off from the world when they are under pressure. That is understandable. I have gone through periods when I didn’t want to meet people because I didn’t feel good about my situation in life and that made my life even m...

Yes! You Can Manage Stress

At its heart, Codependency is a set of behaviors developed to manage the anxiety that comes when our primary attachments are formed with people who are inconsistent or unavailable in their response to us. Our anxiety-based responses to life can inclu...

Awakening Hope. a Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small. But it was major in terms of my hea...

Toni Morrison

But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the ju...

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living

Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly w...

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living

Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his mind. Now there was a war brewing between the Steelwielders and some foreign religion. More mindless loss over beliefs and mytho...

Steel, Magick and Faith

The two women did more than resolve a major problem, they went on to form a political alliance and launch a coup. Cixi was twenty-five years old and Empress Zhen a year younger. Facing them were eight powerful men in control of the state machine. The...

Jung Chang

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Collected Fiction

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Choke

The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.

Changing Planes

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

Christians and Politics Uneasy Partners

If uncertain, it's best to pass by a possibly good dog than risk injury.

Dog Logic: Companion Obedience, Rapport-Based Training

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.

Emphyrio

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

Fahrenheit 451

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Faith and Doubt

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

House of Sand and Fog

I didn’t know how good change could feel. I just worried about the risks, not the rewards.

Here, Home, Hope

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.

The Best of Me

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Bob Ehrlich