Quotes About Risk

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

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.

As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.

Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... Much... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.

I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness, or my family, or the love of my life. That's a mistake. And I think a lot of people make that mistake, they're always kind of, like, seeking out the next thing that's gonna happen.

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

I didn't want to put myself in a position where I was living so expensively that if something happened next year or two years from now and I wasn't making the same money, I couldn't afford my lifestyle.

I had a really nice car. You can drive 103 and it not be dangerous.

I'm involved in fight of the year nearly every time I fight because I put it all on the line. I don't look to keep out of the way and nick a decision.

I think anybody that is going to stand with Nick Diaz and try to throw down, that is a big mistake.

I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!

I'm not a gambler or a nightclub guy.

Our schedule is intense. We do this for five nights a week, so injuries can happen very easily with the demands of the job. It's just the nature of what we do and sports in general.

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.

Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.

There were times in the writing of Ninth House' where I thought, have I gone too far?'

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.