Quotes About Risk

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Sometimes, she knew, the only difference between poor judgment and a calculated risk was the outcome. In Shar's case, the jury was still out. But she couldn't ignore what he'd learned through his actions.

The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.

A young girl's body is the most dangerous place in the world, as it is the spot where violence is most likely to be enacted.

Writing a book is exactly like love. You don't hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn't work out, you're heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to. You don't hold some of yourself in reserve. It's all or nothing. There are no guarantees.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. —Dostoevsky

The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. —The Wizard of Oz

I'd rather regret the things I've done than the things I haven't done. —Lucille Ball

They seek the edges, because it is the edges that ultimately lead us. A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

You never have enough information. You don't get to see the future. And if you screw up, if with your incomplete, contradictory information you make the wrong call, well, nothing less than your child's entire future and happiness is at stake. It's impossible. It's heartbreaking. It's maddening. But there's no alternative.

One is the loneliest number. Never put all your eggs in one basket.

This is what Grandma was worried about, you know.' 'Me eating a whole chocolate cake practically all by myself in a single sitting?' 'You falling in love with a computer geek. Sure, they have good stock options and smokin' hot bods, but what about that dark side of genius that reanimates the dead?

Fear, without potential mitigating

solutions, can be very volatile.

They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.

Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.

I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.

Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one.

much diversification is really diworsification.

But sometimes you have to go for it in life. If you just sit around thinking, then nothing ever happens. And with that I was seized by a moment of clarity.

Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

Constantly risking absurdityand deathwhenever he performsabove the headsof his audiencethe poet like an acrobatclimbs on rimeto a high wire of his own making

I flew too near the sun and my wax wings fell off

Con el telón de fondo de las intensas presiones competitivas, el papel del directivo empezaba a verse cada vez más comprometido. Los sueldos que podían cobrar en las grandes compañías eran notables, pero también los riesgos de ser despedidos. Sus actuaciones se juzgaban de acuerdo con modelos cada vez más exigentes, pero desde luego el objetivo más importante era conseguir beneficios a corto plazo que atrajeran a nuevos inversores.