Quotes About Risk

The move to separate from the EU is not a step backward onto firm ground, but a leap into the unknown.

You can certainly concede freedom without becoming more secure. The

It is never wrong to be curious. But it can sometimes be dangerous.

Uncertainty can be the most difficult and frightening of mental states. If you're always wondering which way to go, you might freeze up and not go anywhere. If you're afraid you can't do something, you might not even try.

Life is full of opportunities. The problem is to recognize them when they present themselves, and that isn't always easy. Mine, for instance, had all the marks of a curse: 'Beware! You run a grave risk of dying in 1993. You mustn't fly that year. Don't fly, not even once,' a fortune-teller told me.

En la vida siempre se presenta una buena oportunidad. El problema radica en saberla reconocer y eso, a menudo, no es tan sencillo. La mía, sin ir más lejos, tenía todo el aspecto de ser una maldición. Un adivino me dijo: "¡Atención! En 1993 correrás un enorme riesgo de muerte. No vueles durante todo ese año. No tomes ningún vuelo".

I could fly. Nobody ever promised I won't die. Yet without wings I flew And now without regret For promises unkept For things undone Now without much pain I feel like flying yet... again.

Quello di cui hai paura è la paura e non gli aerei. S vuoi non avere paura, devi volare. Siediti su un aereo convinto che niente di succederà, e niente ti succederà. […] Il pericolo è nella vita stessa, anche tu sei nato solo per morire.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us.

Watching as Boris's last chips were scooped away, Will thought it was probably because he had always had an innate sense of how much easier it was to lose than win.

Romance under capitalism is a form of investment, and even a risky investment, as romance sometimes is, remains within the calculus of risk and loss. Love transcends any calculus and forces the subject to abandon its identity entirely, not simply stake its reputation or its fortune.

You have to try new things. You can hate failure, but you mustn't let the fear of it paralyze you.

Je désirais le mouvement et non une existence au cours paisible. je voulais l'excitation et le danger, et le risque de me sacrifier pour mon amour. Je sentais en moi une énergie surabondante qui ne trouvait aucun exutoire dans notre vie tranquille.

Ik verlangde naar beweging en niet naar een zo rustig voorbijgaand leven. Ik verlangde naar opwinding, naar gevaren, naar een gelegenheid mij op te offeren voor mijn gevoel.

I intend to resign my post without permission, illegally requisition numerous Company ships and men, and take them on a half-baked voyage to the other ends of the earth for a futile romantic cause. Do any of you wish to arrest me now?" The film, missing out several other historically recorded exchanges of dialogue for drama's sake, cuts to Ulrich Münchhausen commenting "The only reason we might arrest you is if you said we could not come with you.

In television, everything is possible and nothing is sure.

Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

Alan parafraseó la cita y la llevaba siempre en su billetera: "En el preciso instante en que todos dicen lo grande que es uno, es cuando uno se torna en más vulnerable". Walt la había llamado la "Zona Roja". Alan se imaginó que ya se encontraba en la Zona Roja y estaba determinado a evitar sus peligros.

No substantial change has ever been managed without risk.

Risk management is not the same as worrying about your project.

Each time you give trust in advance of demonstrated performance, you flirt with danger. If you're risk-averse, you won't do it. And that's a shame, because the most effective way to gain the trust and loyalty of those beneath you is to give the same in equal measure.