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From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.
Robert Pozen
Work
Law
Perspective
Case
Cases
Risk
Gives
Lawyers
Firm
Takes
Longer
Hour
Well
Client
Shifts
Than
Expected
Certain
Incentive
Billing
Appeal
The reason I fight is to provide for my family, and I cannot risk having that taken away.
Robert Whittaker
Family
Fight
Risk
Having
Taken
Provide
Cannot
Reason
Away
No fighter wants to risk getting ring rust.
Robert Whittaker
Fighter
Ring
Rust
Risk
Getting
Wants
Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.
Roger von Oech
Day
You
New Things
Everyone
Once
Risk
Point
Shape
New
Make
Least
Trying
Using
Keep
Things
Muscle
Consuming art should involve investment and risk.
Romesh Ranganathan
Art
Risk
Consuming
Investment
Involve
Should
There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.
Romola Garai
News
Conflict
World
Somebody
Sit
Those
Out
Someone
Risk
Journalists
Still
Versus
Report
Going
Situations
Behind
Whether
Who
Lives
Desk
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.
Ron Chernow
Money
Tolerance
Savings
Market
Once
Way
Broker
Brokerage
Would
Find
Someone
Rather
Risk
Higher
House
Became
Because
Stock
Stock Market
Than
American
Bank
Banker
Much
I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.
Ron Wyden
Life
Love
You
Hide
Care
Country
Enough
Risk
Your
Who
Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.
Ronan Farrow
Own
Out
My Own
Risk
Absolutely
Put
Journalism
Bulletproof
Very
Reporting
Any
Anything
Body
Certainly
Aware
Need
I don't believe in public companies... I would prefer to risk my own money, make any necessary changes fast and grow as quickly as possible.
Roustam Tariko
Money
Own
Believe
Changes
Possible
Would
My Own
Risk
Make
Quickly
Any
Public
Prefer
Companies
Grow
Fast
Necessary
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.
Ruben Hinojosa
Youth
People
Young
White
White House
Our
Risk
Disadvantaged
Adulthood
House
Force
Tragically
Task
Reported
Task Force
Achieving
Young People
Productive
Serious
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
Russell Wilson
Big
Took
Kind
Risk
Leagues
Because
Leaving
Huge
Big Leagues
Predicted
Baseball
Baseman
Play
Second
Obama and his Democrat allies in Congress have proven they will use bait-and-switch tactics to move more unvetted refugees into our communities. This will inevitably put our nation and our citizens at risk for future terrorist attacks.
Ryan Zinke
Future
Will
Nation
Congress
Our
Obama
Citizens
Risk
More
Tactics
Allies
Attacks
Put
Democrat
Terrorist
Inevitably
Proven
His
Move
Refugees
Use
Communities
Being subjected to Islamophobic abuse makes integration less likely and amplifies the views of the extremists rather than the mainstream. It's divisive and dangerous and puts British lives at risk.
Sadiq Khan
Dangerous
Extremists
Rather
Risk
Divisive
Puts
Mainstream
Abuse
Likely
Makes
Integration
Subjected
Than
Being
Less
Views
Lives
British
People only attempt perilous journeys like crossing the Channel because they are desperate. It is deeply concerning that men, women, and children feel they have no choice but to put their lives at risk in their search for a safe place to live.
Sajid Javid
Women
People
Safe Place
Desperate
Men
Live
Channel
No Choice
Crossing
Risk
Only
Attempt
Put
Feel
Journeys
Like
Perilous
Safe
Concerning
Because
Women And Children
Children
Place
Choice
Search
Lives
Deeply
When you're young, taking a risk doesn't necessarily feel like a risk because you're young.
Salim Akil
You
Young
Risk
Taking
Feel
Like
Because
Necessarily
As a society, we have this perception that women are emotional. The research, however, tells us that, on trading floors, that poor risk rises and falls with testosterone levels, and these trading floors are 85 percent, 90 percent male, and these gentlemen tend, under periods of stress, to show off for each other. That's dangerous.
Sallie Krawcheck
Women
Dangerous
Stress
Perception
Show Off
Research
Society
Other
Tells
Percent
Rises
Risk
Tend
Emotional
Periods
Gentlemen
Trading
However
Male
Testosterone
Falls
Off
Women Are
Poor
Us
Show
Each
Floors
Levels
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
Sam Mendes
Day
Great
You
Every Day
Better
Every
Type
Hungry
Out
One Thing
Risk
Having
Casting
Never
He
Him
Himself
Known
Test
Trailer
Than
Get
Done
Anyone
Which
Against
Asking
Actor
Thing
Great Actor
I hear stories of kids trying to swipe left or right on books - we have to rein that back a bit and not become drones ourselves. The more we embrace it, the more machine-like we risk becoming.
Sam Palladio
Become
Back
Books
Bit
Kids
Ourselves
Embrace
Risk
More
Drones
Becoming
Hear
Left
Trying
Stories
Swipe
Rein
Right
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
Samuel Wilson
Environmental
Science
Management
Better
Society
Project
Responsibilities
Faced
Risk
Risk Management
Genome
Make
Provide
Which
Informed
Decisions
Base
The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.
Sandro Veronesi
Work
Time
You
Change
Innovation
World
Remember
Too Much
Will
Long
Important
Think
Too
Changed
Our
Our Lives
About
Something
Risk
Take
Betting
Make
Because
Important Thing
Get
Trying
Much
Lives
Thing
By The Time
At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.
Sara Ramirez
You
Feedback
Try
Negative
Reading
Some
Risk
Point
Stuff
Sort
Because
Always
Hear
Blogs
Certain
Certain Point
Hard
Avoid
It's fun when the writers take risk regardless of the reaction that it might get, and that's fun for an actor. You're able to not just play one thing all the time.
Sara Ramirez
Time
You
One Thing
Able
Risk
Take
Writers
Reaction
Get
Just
Regardless
Might
Fun
Actor
Play
Thing
Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk being misunderstood, so remember, I am a man who once programmed a baseball game with no baseball players. If anyone appreciates graphics, it's me!
Satoru Iwata
Me
Game
Man
Experience
Remember
Appreciates
Once
Risk
More
Only
Point
Know
Look
Making
Am
Misunderstood
Improving
Being
Anyone
Being Misunderstood
Means
Games
Who
Graphics
Baseball
Baseball Game
Baseball Players
Players
Programmed
If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?
Satya Nadella
Business
Will
Build
Every
Society
Software
Valley
Sector
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Risk
Computer
Driven
Does
How
Scientists
Lots
Get
Capital
Themselves
Engineers
Who
The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams
Failure
Promotion
Risk
Only
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