Quotes About Risk

My dear, you are in danger of being burned by your own flame.

We gamble with the thought of winning. But it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us.

When I met you I was moving like a blind arrow shot in time of need. I was flint-sharp, flint-primitive. I was aim, arrow, and target. I wanted to be wounded again. I did not want to seal myself against life. I would rather be cut than dry.

The important things. Where should I find them? In the detail, like God? In the risk, like the Devil?

What you risk reveals what you value. In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

The curious are always in some danger.

Lo que arriesgas revela cuánto vales.

We gamble with the hope of winning, but it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us

what you risk reveals what you value...

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

In giving too much weight to prudence one doesn't make enough allowance for the possibility of good luck.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire.

There was no better way to read a man's character than to watch him play poker. Some played with the aim of holding on to what they had, others played to make a killing. For some it was gambling pure and simple, for others it was a game of skill involving small calculated risks. For some it was about numbers, for others it was about psychology.

I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.

Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself.

What sort of adventures?' I asked him, astonished. 'All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believe the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary.

What sort of adventures?" I ask him, astonished. "All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believed the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary

We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.