Quotes About Risk

The loss of memory is the loss of identity, Rebekah. If you can't remember who you are, you are at risk of becoming someone else.

If we manage to cheat death, we'll give death another sporting chance.

You know that saying about how fools rush in where wise men fear to tread? Ashok rushes in where fools won't even go.

Once you've thrown your pilot chute, you're done. It's out of your hands. From that moment on you just enjoy the view or panic.

Once Presley grabbed hold, he spoke like an oracle, your new teen mentor, sitting on your shoulder, urging you to embrace romance, kiss that girl, and take a thousand other risks, even as his doubt and hesitation whispered uncertainty and dread.

If you want to go somewhere new, you have to throw out the tired, old map and stop traveling the same road to the same dead end.

The satisfaction doesn't come from the risk, it comes from mastering it. I own this.

Confidence is about taking chances, and never doubting the outcome.

So everything I do is to minimize the risk of that happening. That helps me fight the mental urge to doubt myself, to create problems that haven't happened and overthink everything that could go wrong.

Here's the deal: 90 percent of the time, whatever you do will turn out to be a mistake, but that's still better than doing nothing, which is always a mistake.

The thought does cross my mind that I could slip and end up cracking my head on the pavement just short of the pool, but if you're always going to worry about minor drawbacks, then you'll never accomplish anything.

I figured we'd just do what we always do: stick our noses in where they don't belong and see what happens.

A third of all loggers in the Northwest will be seriously injured at some time during their careers. According to medical insurance records in Washington and Oregon, only two lines of work are more dangerous than logging - professional football and crop-dusting.

That's what the suitcase farmers were doing. Salesmen, druggists, barkeeps, docs, mechanics, teachers—the range of day-jobbers who thought they wanted to be wheat farmers, ripping up a half-section here and there, trying to hit a crop—they were getting out before they got in any deeper.

Bank accounts were not backed by anything but the good name of the people who ran the bank. And too many of them saw the personal savings of High Plains nesters as just another source of cash for the stock market or an ill-conceived business loan. No matter the exact cause: the First National was broke.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

WHEN 99% OF PEOPLE DOUBT YOU, YOU'RE EITHER GRAVELY WRONG OR ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY.

Give vulnerability a shot. Give discomfort its due. Because I think he or she who is willing to be the most uncomfortable is not only the bravest, but rises the fastest.

Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." –Anaïs Nin

In cooking—as in business and war—hope for the best but plan for the worst.

courage was more important than confidence. When you are operating out of courage, you are saying that no matter how you feel about yourself or your opportunities or the outcome, you are going to take a risk and take a step toward what you want. You are not waiting for the confidence to mysteriously arrive. I now believe that confidence is achieved through repeated success at any endeavor.