I willingly stepped in the ring and took a risk.
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I took a risk and I am glad I did.
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Frustrated by a disorganized marketing strategy, she took a risk.
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" As Ms. Levitt said, looking back, "I took a risk.
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They took a risk, but look how tennis has changed.
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"And yeah, you know, you took a risk, " he says.
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I took a risk and turned a passion into a business.
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So they took a risk and I commend them for that.
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"They took a risk, and now the reward," Mr. Perkins said.
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"They came in early, and they took a risk," he said.
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"They took a risk, and that's fine," he told CNN affiliate, WCCO.
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I also loved that she took a risk in a pants moment.
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Grateful that she took a risk on me and invested in my company.
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JF: Okay I took a risk and I knew it, I knew it.
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Jansson took a risk knowingly, as homosexuality was illegal in Finland until 1971.
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He took a risk on me, but he doesn't see it that way.
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"People don't like to take a risk, but I took a risk," he stresses.
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Driven by thoughts of the Holocaust, she took a risk and offered them shelter.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)When MSI released the GS65 last year, it took a risk.
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Lara and his wife took a risk agreeing to an on-camera interview with CNN.
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" Bossert added, "He took a risk but it worked, it caused a lot of benefit.
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I took a risk and prevailed, and it has a special place in my heart.
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On the walk back to Mr. Schreiber's car after the date, he took a risk.
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He took a risk in 1975, when he dropped out of Harvard to build Microsoft.
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I took a risk — but I'm happy to accept whatever consequences the Parliament decides on.
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I took a risk in shedding the hard exterior prison culture encourages for something more human.
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She took a risk, got high one more time on some bad dope, and lost everything.
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Winfrey took a risk when she dropped out of college to pursue a career in media.
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That both took a risk on unexpected names in a bid to push the reset button?
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I took a risk because I thought it would help [other women] if I came forward.
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JL: Yeah you took a risk and you just fell off a cliff there I'm so sorry.
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I took a risk, but it required Knight to take a second risk to make it work.
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"They took a risk, and now the reward," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council.
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Hiring managers may also ask you about a time you took a risk and it didn't pay off.
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I took a risk and sat at an empty table, where I attended to the food before me.
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So Osorio took a risk by joining a local club, the Staten Island Vipers, as a conditioning coach.
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But by signaling their willingness to work in a bipartisan manner, Reed, Katko, and Fitzpatrick took a risk.
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In "Dances of Isadora," Ms. Mearns took a risk and fittingly so: Duncan risked everything for dance, too.
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The duchess took a risk wearing a high-collared Mary Dot Illusion Dot Dress by Indian designer Saloni.
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Still, Ramirez remained adamant about not cutting corners on the quality of his beef and took a risk.
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This year, festival organisers took a risk in featuring Steve Reich, a contemporary classical composer, in their opening concert.
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As she was about to graduate, Kern Lima was considering a career in finance, but took a risk instead.
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And so I took a risk and touched myself the way I knew I really needed to be touched.
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In 2008, he took a risk in leaving Microsoft to work full-time at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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"They took a risk with Apple Watch, which I think is a phenomenal product," said Drexel Hamilton analyst Brian White.
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Investors that took a risk and bought shares on the weakness made as much as an $2743 swing, he said.
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"As a lead athlete, they tell you not to tamper with your bib, but I took a risk," Keflezighi said.
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But Warner — trying to get ahead of Marvel's coming "Captain America: Civil War" — took a risk on the Easter holiday.
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"I took a risk, and burst it with color, art and energy — it's not tone-on-tone," Ms. Post said.
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"The team really took a risk," says Julien de Wit, a post doc at MIT who helped analyze the TRAPPIST data.
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Mr Rajoy took a risk by calling an immediate election (though it served to reduce protests over suspending Catalan self-government).
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Some have a background in business; others took a risk to try something new or identified a need in past jobs.
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We took a risk by giving her the autonomy to make the decision for herself, but it was worth a shot.
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"The government took a risk assessment of both Huawei and the American reaction," Mr. Ricketts said, "and decided to press ahead."
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"There are countries in sub-Saharan Africa where Huawei ... took a risk to invest when other vendors were wary," Liew said.
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"I took a risk on hiring this young lady, and I'm pleased to announce that my bet paid off," Nearman wrote.
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Sam Presti took a risk in dealing away a quality vet who has been with KD and Russ for a long time.
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Hernandez, who grew up in Brownsville, Texas, remains grateful that an adult took a risk to talk to her and her peers.
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If you take a risk to start a business and you make money, you pay less taxes — because you took a risk.
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"You took a risk at the local spots," Mr. Adamson said of betting on sports before it became legal on June 25.
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"Yes I took a risk to leave ... my return will be risky," he told a news conference following talks with EU lawmakers.
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Instead, he took a risk, not to mention a stand in a simmering battle over the artistic future of the comedy special.
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It's not our job to decide if it's too dangerous or not, or if they took a risk that we wouldn't take.
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In hindsight, yes, I could have probably saved myself the heartache, but in the end, I took a risk I thought worth taking.
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He took a risk by reducing the prioritization of Windows and Office to make cloud more of a priority, but it paid off.
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Winfrey took a risk when she dropped out of college in 1976 to pursue a career in media, but the gamble paid off.
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Like Katie Cool from Wilmington, N.C., who described beautifully what it felt like when she took a risk: Nick Trinity from Sarasota, Fla.
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When a leader talks up and encourages risk taking, but then skewers people who took a risk and failed, it's like talent repellent.
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Each student took a risk — stuck her neck out, we might say — in an effort to become the head of her own life.
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ABC took a risk when it commissioned the revival of a show about the lives of an unremarkable working-class family in the Midwest.
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But with the Jets still seeking a franchise quarterback, they took a risk by taking Christian Hackenberg of Penn State in the second round.
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The safe-haven Japanese yen weakened as markets took a risk-on mode, trading at 110.08 versus the greenback, from the 109 level earlier.
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"It was the first time I was buying semiprecious jewelry online, and I took a risk," said Ms. Sonty, 230, a human resources manager.
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In America we actually have a gene for risk taking because the majority of people who got here took a risk to get here.
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Food was always important for her, but it wasn't until she took a risk that she began to realize her future might be in food.
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Here is where I owe a big "Thank you!" to the two men who took a risk and hired me: Bob Davis and David Zaslav.
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Although late to the cold brew trend, Dunkin' took a risk "intentionally cannibalizing" its successful iced coffee business, and it seems to have paid off.
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But Boone took a risk when he let Severino last so long, and he made a strange choice to keep the runners where they were.
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"[Disney] took a risk and they made a female the hero of 'Force Awakens', " Jim Silver, CEO of TTPM, an online toy review site, told CNBC.
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"We took a risk because he had a couple of injuries, but I had seen him for years and I had always loved him," Rizzo said.
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Yeah, I like making money, but the happiest I've been in my career was when I took a risk and lower salary to try something new.
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Chief artistic officer Reed Krakoff took a risk, aiming for the line to "possess a whimsical wink that is quintessentially Tiffany" — and everyone's talking about it.
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The Warriors took a risk with the contract but were handsomely rewarded with one of the best four-year stretches by any player in N.B.A. history.
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Ellis only brought two keepers to the 2016 Olympics, while then-head coach Tom Sermanni took a risk by only bringing one goalie to London in 2012.
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But Dropbox's move is impressive in part because CEO Drew Houston once took a risk by turning down an offer from the one and only Steve Jobs.
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John Harris, who took a risk pairing up with me a decade ago this fall, will help guide the next chapter and carry on the POLITICO torch.
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In the Stuttgart final today against Laura Siegemund, Mladenovic was sawing her opponent back and forth over the court, when she took a risk by going to net.
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Ms O'Brien, now 88, took a risk in giving voice to a Nigerian girl who suffers horrific cruelty, especially in an age when "cultural appropriation" is often frowned upon.
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The dollar was little changed against the euro at $1.1320 , but rose 0.5 percent against the yen to 109.50 yen as investors took a 'risk on' stance on Tuesday.
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In another first, Mr. Rubinger and his team took a risk on a collection of 40 crystal handbags consigned by a single European client, who preferred to remain anonymous.
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At a time when bitcoin was only worth about $660 and yet to go mainstream, Jackson took a risk: He agreed to accept it as a form of payment.
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I was pretty confused about how anyone could get a bad grade in chorus, but I took a risk with him and put a key-logger on the teacher's computer.
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What you do is you charge for – if you take a risk to start a business and you make – money, you pay less taxes, not because you took a risk.
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They took a risk, because I was just 30 and yet they were putting me in charge of one of the three major divisions of the company at the time.
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"You could say we took a risk hiring Hildy back in 2013 — she came from politics and made no pretense that she knew much about the fashion world," she said.
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Major Asia Pacific currencies dropped against the U.S. dollar on Monday morning, as investors took a risk-off approach with volatility across markets shooting up over an oil price war.
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"We had a bunch of employees that took a risk on a very ambitious plan to improve our democracy and we didn't want to leave them out to dry" Mahan stresses.
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We are always learning, so for me, I found that I took a risk in that and it's enabled me to be a constant learner and continue to broaden my horizons.
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Sadowski-Synnott was another who took a risk with her final jump and while she could not pull it off perfectly, she was satisfied that she had given it a go.
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How he fits: With the quarterback situation settled (the Browns hope), Cleveland took a risk by skipping over Bradley Chubb and going with Ward, the best defensive back in the draft.
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Making the bet SoftBank took a risk in December 2017 when it decided to pump more than $7 billion into Uber, betting it could help reform a promising company in disarray.
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Pilatus investors took a risk in embarking on the jet project, Schwenk told the newspaper, adding that the development costs of "well over 500 million francs" far exceeded the original planned budget.
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But instead of working his way further up the traditional central left or right party ladder, he took a risk and entered the competition as an independent competitor, with the En Marche!
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At age 36, MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle took a risk by moving from her high-paying banking career to one in media — where she had no experience and was warned not to pursue.
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While journalists are warned to never to surprise the talent, AARP The Magazine writers took a risk and sprung a dozen puppies on Helen Mirren following five hours of photos and interviews.
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Macron took a risk when he decided to recruit candidates with little political experience and it paid off this weekend when French voters gave En Marche an absolute majority over the government.
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View Poll Sofia Vergara stuck to her signature, a mermaid style gown (in Vera Wang), while Angelina Jolie (in Versace) and Anne Hathaway (in Armani Privé) took a risk in sequins in 2011.
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"Six Flags took a risk on this partnership that was, at the time, Fred working out of his garage and Alan working out of his house," Mr. Kilcup said in a phone interview.
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Opinion: Anthony Bourdain saw the humanity in all of us In 2013, both Bourdain and CNN took a risk by bringing him to a network still best known for breaking news and headlines.
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The owner of the Cincinnati Bengals is telling fans he knows the team "took a risk" in drafting Joe Mixon -- but he's hoping Joe is a changed man who won't screw up again.
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Buffett has a long-term relationship with the suit-maker and self-made entrepreneur behind Dalian Dayang Trands, Madam Li. Years ago, she took a risk, caught his attention and then won his respect.
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Candidates on Thursday were more varied in their looks: Kirsten Gillibrand wore her signature dress, while Eric Swalwell, perhaps in attempt to appear more youthful, took a risk by opting for an orange tie.
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When I eventually got laid off from my magazine job, I took a risk and started my own business, something I might not have done if I'd been worrying about college tuition down the line.
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Lindelof and his team took a risk by trying to build on such an iconic story, especially since the original creator of "Watchmen" has explicitly said he never wants his work adapted for a screen.
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Ms. Rich and her team took a risk in advertising "The Meg" as a joke — winking at potential ticket buyers with a campy trailer starring a Yorkie with a pink bow and featuring silly music.
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However, it was when they owned Jil Sander (which they sold to a private equity group in 2006) that they first met Mr. Simons, and took a risk on hiring him for the women's brand.
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Two weeks earlier, I took a risk on some dicey food from the back of my fridge and rapidly wound up on my knees, racked and convulsing in a way that I hadn't in years.
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So Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took a risk, audaciously announcing that he'd refuse to even consider any Obama nominee for the seat, because the winner of the 2016 presidential election should get to fill it.
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O'Rourke took a risk when he chose not to include any nod to traditional patriotic reds or blues in his campaign theme, but he somehow made a line of badass merch from his Whataburger-inspired logo.
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Sure, I may not stick with it for the rest of my life, but I'll look back on this time with the assurance that I took a risk and, in my opinion, it totally paid off.
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But I thought she really knocked it out of the park in this pretty embellished Prada that took a risk (that bold color!) while still being comfortable, and paid homage to the character she played in Jackie.
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In his lawsuit and public statements, Mr. Blumenthal has portrayed Mr. Fordjour as an ungrateful man, one who is now tasting the fruits of recognition and betraying a mentor who took a risk on an aspiring talent.
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Still, nothing had ever been as effective against multiple myeloma, so a biotechnology company called Celgene took a risk and spent millions of dollars developing an analogue of the compound, transforming thalidomide into a more potent cancer drug.
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View Poll Just last year, Emma Stone shone in her celestial Valentino gown, Priyanka Chopra wowed in a gold lace Ralph Lauren Collection dress and Mandy Moore took a risk in a plunging Naeem Khan gown with flowing cape.
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Click here to subscribe to the PeopleStyle Newsletter for amazing shopping discounts, can't-live-without beauty products and more "What I did love is that she took a risk," PEOPLE's Style & Beauty Director Andrea Lavinthal said on People Now.
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U.S. Senator Harry Reid on Nevada said the couple took a "risk on Las Vegas" in 2002 by committing to an extended show contract, a move he said was unprecedented for a star of her caliber at the time.
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"Everyone who chips in before the next phase of this race, when the debates begin, will be the founders of this campaign — the people who took a risk on me and our underdog operation," Mr. Booker wrote May 23.
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Prosecutors said Mr. Schiff took a risk in his bald declaration Thursday night that the president could not be trusted because Republicans in the chamber, almost all of whom support Mr. Trump, would see the criticism as implicitly directed at them.
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Without the work of our brilliant staff of journalists, some of whom took a risk to join "Project X" and are still here to toast this milestone anniversary, we would not be celebrating this level of success five years in.
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There is some debate about whether the promised changes are transformational or just cosmetic, but the government took a risk in promising to make them and is now dismayed to see that the pact has little chance of passing Congress anytime soon.
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Trump on Trial Representative Adam B. Schiff took a risk in telling senators they must convict and remove President Trump because "you know you can't trust this president to do what's right for this country." transcript But here, right is supposed to matter.
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"But Mr. Trump's judgment can be so reckless that many voters who took a risk on him the first time will ask if he's worth a second gamble when he would no longer be disciplined by having to face the voters again," the editorial states.
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But in going after Bloomberg (and everyone else on that stage) so unapologetically, unleashing anger in a way that is rarely seen on the debate stage, Warren took a risk, said Amanda Hunter, research director at the nonpartisan Barbara Lee Family Foundation, which supports women in politics.
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And when Tomorrow Rodriguez, a 2008 "Deal or No Deal" contestant who only planned to go home with enough money to pay off her "and a little bit more," took a risk on another briefcase, she ended up as the second-ever $1 million winner in the United States.
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On the face of it, then, ABC television took a risk when it commissioned a new season of "Roseanne", a popular sitcom about a blue-collar clan's trials and tribulations, built around the premise that, 63 years after the show last aired, its fictional family is now divided by Trump-love and -loathing.
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Marvel Studios seemingly took a risk in letting someone outside of the Disney machine make an MCU picture, and while it admittedly had to—Sony has the movie rights to the Spider-Man character, and there was likely no other way to get the character to team up with the Avengers—the move paid off.
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"A decade after we took a risk in backing a film centered around a slide show presentation and one human's quest to awaken global consciousness about our changing planet, we are proud to bring global audiences a promising update: that a future powered by clean, safe, renewable, inexpensive, non-polluting energy is no longer a dream but a very attainable reality," Jeff Skoll, the film's executive producer, told USA Today.
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You might try that, or you can brainstorm answers to this list of prompts — or both: -A time I took a risk:-A time I learned something about myself:-A memory from childhood I think about often:-Something that happened to me that still makes me laugh:-Something very few people know about me:-Something I regret:-A time when I felt rejected:-Something I am really proud of:-Something that changed the way I think or look at the world:-How I am different from most people I know:-Some of my fears:-A time I felt truly satisfied:-A time I failed at something:-An object I own that tells a lot about me: Once you've chosen a topic, you might try to free-write for 10 minutes or so, asking yourself as you go: What was most interesting or memorable about this?
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