Quotes About Risk

I knew I had made a big mistake, but it was a glorious one, and I wanted to make it over and over again.

The world was so much safer when you only had yourself to lose.

everyone knows it's not safe to go out on a brimstone night especially with you

When one is young and on the threshold of life's long deception, rashness is all. —Françoise Sagan1

Een dolk en een masker,' fluisterde Lucien. 'Over een paar maanden zul je nog gevaarlijker zijn dan je nu al bent.

Isn't a mistress supposed to care about her lover?" she asked softly. Their glances met, and Nicholas felt something shift deep inside him, creating a moment of strange vulnerability. This woman could hurt him badly if he wasn't careful.

As Paracelsus said, 'Dose alone makes a poison.'" The

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

I'm taking a big risk by coming clean, but the pressure of hiding my true self done really took a toll on me and I can't take too much more.

Thus, fixed-price contracts tend to select the vendor most likely to get in trouble.

Software rarely comes with a warranty.

premature design commitment is a design failure mode

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.

Life is always there for the courageous! But change involves risk... and a kind of mourning for what you leave behind you.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could fly, or fall. I didn't know how to fly, and I didn't want to fall. So I backed away from the cliff and went in search of something that had a clear, solid trajectory for me to follow, like hopscotch.

When language and thought atrophy, when complexity wanes and everything becomes more and more the same, we run great risks in society politic-- whether from extremists in a religion or a political organization or, less obviously, from advertisers.

Too many people fail to answer opportunity's knock at the door because they have to finish some preconceived plan.

To fully express the true self is at best a calculated risk.

To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure.

Ahbearrrrrrrrr!

It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know.