Quotes About Risk

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

If you see a bandwagon, its too late.

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

If your attack is going too well, youre walking into an ambush.

Five-second fuses only last three seconds.

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

You can sum up this sport boxing in two words: You never know.

Never swap horses crossing a stream

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness...

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you've never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you're going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important. I

I always question artists who are successful in whatever they do—I think what that means is that they're repeating themselves and not taking enough risks.

I've never really had a studio. A studio makes you lazy and comfortable, and you repeat yourself.

If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you've never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you're going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important.

All too often, we sanitize and simplify forgiveness, when in fact it's an arduous, exhausting task---messy, risky, and unpredictable.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

I was dealing with humans. What could go wrong?

We ran across the desert like our hair was on fire because in a few minutes, it might be. Along with the rest of our bodies.

La valentía no es la ausencia de miedo, Pablo, sino el atreverse a hacer lo que uno tiene que hacer a pesar