Absolute Risk Aversion

Famous quotes containing the words absolute, risk and/or aversion:

    “Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her “job” is that the children’s growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother’s indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)

    “When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)