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Quotes About Risk

I should have known he'd be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn't have known he'd be the death of me.
~ Unknown
Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
~ Eoin Colfer, Airman
Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails, " suggested
~ Neal Shusterman, Everlost
Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
Someday you won't ever be seen again, but until then, make everyday an adventure.
~ Unknown
I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of not living."-Jared Alexander
~ Jared Alexander
Do not be afraid to fall, be afraid to to land... For no one has ever died from falling they have died from landing instantaneously.
~ Unknown
Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.
~ Aesop
Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.
~ Steven Pinker
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.
~ Pericles
When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
~ Tibor Kalman
Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
~ Spike Jonze
Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.
~ Alexander Isley
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
~ Winston Churchill
I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.
~ Biz Stone
Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
~ Douglas Wilson
We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.
~ Jonathan Ive
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
~ Frank Scoblete
So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.
~ Ed Helms
The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.
~ Dan Marino
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
~ Jay McInerney
Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it.
~ Zan Perrion
One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib