Quotes About Risk

we can speak of marriage as an adventure, but only because for disciples, marriage is now subsumed under the category of an aspect of our adventure in Christ. How on earth could we explain how ordinary people could risk commitment to another person for a lifetime, especially since we have no way of knowing all the implications that this commitment entails?

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he tried and failed.

A people who had so lightly given up their political and cultural and economic freedoms were not, except for a relatively few, going to die or even risk imprisonment to preserve freedom of worship.

He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.

Is it dangerous? Hmm. Well, define 'dangerous.' Is a knife 'dangerous'? Is Russian roulette 'dangerous'? Is arsenic 'dangerous'? ...It really depends on your perspective.

The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?

He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.

Why's there a pharos here?" he said. "You don't put a lighthouse where no one's going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go.

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.

One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Beware the soul-sucking force of "reasonableness." Otherwise you risk deflating your peaks. Speed bumps are reasonable. Mount Everest is not reasonable.

Any new quest, even one that is ultimately successful, is going to involve failure.

when you seek out situations where you might fail, failure loses some of its menace. You've been inoculated against it.

Checklists provide insurance against overconfidence.

Both women experienced moments of self-insight sparked by "stretching." To stretch is to place ourselves in situations that expose us to the risk of failure.

As the authors of the book Surprise put it, "We feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they're not.

2 out of every 5 people you shake hands with may not have washed their hands between using the toilet and touching your hands.

teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student.

Which of these animals is more likely to kill you? A SHARK                                    A DEER           ANSWER: The deer is more likely to kill you. In fact, it's 300 times more likely to kill you (via a collision with your car).

tripwires allow us the certainty of committing to a course of action, even a risky one, while minimizing the costs of overconfidence.

In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that a teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student.