Quotes About Risk

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.