Quotes About Risk

It is like looking down from the clifs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.

More mud, more crocodiles.

Bazen de korkusunun nedenleriyle flört ederdi. En karanl?k ve dar sokaklar? seçer ve cüretkarca yürürken ad?mlar?n?n çevresindeki sessizlik onu rahats?z eder, çevresindeki karanl?k siluetler onu rahats?z eder, alçak, kaçamak bir gülüÅŸ onu yaprak gibi titretirdi.

Dare it. Let there be life.

Remember... It's a jungle out there!

Gamblers and lovers pay big dues and enjoy limited consolations. But sometimes they are enough.

You pull on dat 'gator's tail, he gonna clean your kneecaps, him.

He had learned in Vietnam there were three groups of people who got you killed—pencil pushers, amateurs, and idealists.

We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.

The HTX-20 isn't' supposed to explode unless it gets bumped around too much. Right, Badger? Mal pressed. That's right. Or gets wet or hot or all that other gubbins. We went over it, didn't we? You need a refresher course? No, it's just that crate got bumped. How do we know things are still all right? Badger looked at him as if Mal was the stupid one. We're not dead. Hard to argue with that.

If we aren't willing to do whatever is required, he said finally, then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.

There's an African proverb that advises, "Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

Leaders don't have to change history, but they do have to change business as usual. To them, the status quo is unacceptable. Leaders challenge the process. They search for opportunities, and they experiment and take risks. Exemplary leaders also know that they have to be willing to make some personal sacrifices in service of a higher purpose.

You never know where one step will take you, and you never know where the next one will lead. The

She notes how advances in brain imaging technology prove that people's brains are wired to overestimate risk, exaggerate its consequences, and underestimate their ability to handle it. Accordingly, fear about what people don't want to happen drives their choices more often than a commitment to what they wish to see.

He had been willing to risk war rather than let the nation perish.

Friendship was trouble in business.

Because all that money wouldn't be in the pot in the first place if you weren't up against a pretty strong hand, you loose, dumb, tight-weak motherfucker!

Evade purchasing stocks which purely look like a bargain.

The sea is a dangerous place for a woman," said Mr. Chadwick, nodding. "So is dry land," said Chloe.

Gazzy: What does that mean? (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.

Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.

So the first thing we're gonna do, I told him, is push you off the roof.

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