Quotes About Risk

I never did get to brush my teeth this morning, I haven't been able to brush my hair, and I can't unzip my wet suit because I'm only wearing a bikini." Sam laughed. "That's what you get for boarding vessels scantily clad in the middle of the night." He grinned. "I don't suppose it was enough to prevent you from doing it again." "No." She grinned back at him. "I don't suppose it was.

Lucy shivered and went on again. 'This is an adventure,' she thought. 'You can't have an adventure if you stop in the middle.

Life without a taste of irrational, of crazy, is a boring book.

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.

Blessed is the man who "takes the risk of a decision" — asks himself the question: "Would it solve the problem? Is it right as I see it? Is it in the best interests of all?

Injudicious Gardening Fear is Hope

Willing to be reckless. If you can't be that, what's the point of the whole thing?

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization." There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.

There's a bit of difference between swimming in shark-infested water because you're trying to retrieve something from the bottom, and staying in just because you're already there and haven't been eaten yet.

It is not easy to fling oneself down stairs in a skirt; there is always the risk that you will tangle your legs and go headlong. But I made it.

Let it never be said that I court my own death without proper planning.

appreciating the upside doesn't negate the hazards.

Worst-case scenarios are often low-probability events. They're even less likely to happen if you strategize how to prevent them from happening, and how you'd deal with them if they did.

Every question missed is a potential crisis waiting to happen.

Because when you're really scared to do something … do it right away.

Fear? There is no fear when you ride a MotoGP bike. If there is fear, you don't enjoy it. And if you don't enjoy it, you'd better stay at home.

fear is the starter pistol to life's greatest moments

The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

I faced a fear and on the other side I found passion. Don't let fear hold you back, you never know what you might find.