Sentence examples for be afraid of risk from inspiring English sources
"But you can't be afraid of risk or change in any business".
"If you're gonna be involved with Maurizio, as a collector, as a museum, as a gallerist, you can't be afraid of risk," advises collector David Ganek in the film's trailer.
"You can't be afraid of risking being foolish looking for love," she said.
Finds Bulk Candy Purchase to Be Harmless" (news article, Oct. 23): Some parents may be afraid of risks to their children in trick-or-treating, but others are encouraging a sense of responsibility in the world.
Still, the idea that the Japanese are afraid of risk has no basis in history, for better or for worse.
Henry Liu, a Silicon Valley exile who has set up SageTech, a promising electronics-security company at Zhongguancun, complains that most investment firms are state-owned with politicians as shareholders and are "afraid of risk".
In his touching and insightful book Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, Gordon Livingston -- who lost two children, one to suicide and one to leukemia -- wrote, "Many of us are afraid of risk and prefer the bland, the predictable, and the repetitive".
One of the perks of being in a society that is afraid of risking capital on unproven companies is that, for that same reason, early-stage accelerators take their time before deciding on which teams will make up their next generation (a perfect example being Naranya Labs, with its effective multiple-filter acceptance process).
If you are worried they might be suffering from a serious illness, and they are of old age, tell them that you are afraid of risking to lose them, if that is true.
Knopf is a literary house and shouldn't be afraid of taking risks.
