Quotes About Risk

Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you because it's clearer who they are. I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything.

Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.

People are scared of the unknown.

In India, I personally believe yes, there is a clear fear of unknown; there's a lot of risk aversions in science and technology. They want predictability in everything they do, and it starts from people. It starts from investors. It starts from the regulators. You see that mindset across the society.

The unknown is always scary.

That's what makes live TV exciting - the unknown!

Im not an adrenaline junkie, but the unknown of football and it being on a knife edge every week, I love it.

The military is a path of the unknown. I wasn't in denial about the risk.

'The Man Who Can Fly' captures my quest for true human flight. This pursuit of the unknown and following dreams that may or may not be attained are the most important principles we portray in the National Geographic Special.

I love something new and I'm always willing to step into the unknown when it comes to hair.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

You don't really do much in life unless you take risks, push yourself and find your passion.

I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.

Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern.

To be clear, I normally climb with a rope and partner. Free-soloing makes up only a small percentage of my total climbing. But when I do solo, I manage the risk through careful preparation. I don't solo anything unless I'm sure I can do it.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.