Quotes About Risk

Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong.

The notion of "long-term greedy" vanished into thin air as the game became about getting your check before the melon hit the pavement.

The normalcy bias can kill you.

This is a paradoxical case where the normally presumed "safety in numbers" is a deadly betrayer instead of a savior. Given a choice, going it alone beats The Buffalo Jump every time, but it's very hard to bolt from the herd.

Weishi 1.0 entered the market too early, and Weishi 2.0 joined too late, both missing the window of opportunity

there are other dangers to conservatism and to the civilization conservatives are defending than the liberal Establishment, and that to fight liberalism without guarding against these dangers runs the risk of ending in a situation as bad as or worse than our present one.

Take risks, succeed because of those risks:

We hide because we think people will love us less if they truly know us, but the opposite is true in most cases. If we are willing to take the risk and reveal ourselves for who we are, we discover that most people are relieved to know that we are human. Why? Because they are human, too, and are filled with the same fear as you. In most cases, you will find that the things you thought would cause people to stop loving you actually lead them to love you more.

Intimacy is a risk. It should not be taken lightly, but we must take it. No man or woman can live a full life without being known by at least one person. Intimacy is a prerequisite for all those who wish to live the abundant life. The only true reason to delay the adventurous and risky pursuit of real intimacy is the absence of a confidant freely chosen and worthy of our trust.

Race readied himself to jump down onto the submerged roof of the Humvee. He couldn't imagine how it must have looked—him, in his jeans, T-shirt and baseball cap standing atop a submerged Army helicopter in the middle of a caiman-infested Amazonian river.

Ce sont donc les gens dotés d'un ego surdimensionné et qui se sentent vulnérables qui sont les plus dangereux

Selon le rapport des Nations unies sur le Développement humain (2007-2008), le risque de cancer colorectal diminue d'environ 30 % chaque fois que l'on réduit de 100 grammes la consommation quotidienne de viande rouge.

La consommation de viandes traitées (charcuterie) a été, quant à elle, associée à une augmentation du risque de cancer de l'estomac.

la consommation quotidienne de viande est associée à un risque accru de 18 % chez les hommes et de 21 % chez les femmes pour la mortalité cardio-vasculaire, et de respectivement 10 % et 16 % pour la mortalité par cancer

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

Jack la miró largamente. ¿Cómo había imaginado que podría vivir sin ella? Durante todo el infernal trayecto por la autopista cubierta de agua en un Jeep robado, mejor dicho, prestado, había ensayado lo que iba a decir, había pensado cómo iba a abordarla. Una vez allí, en la misión más arriesgada de toda su vida, solo podía hacer una cosa.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

Gibson has never had any qualms about doing things he damn well shouldn't.

Whoever wants to remember himself must entrust himself to forgetfulness, to the risk that absolute forgetfulness is, and the beautiful chance that memory then becomes.

Midnight falls when the dice are cast, but one can only cast the dice at Midnight.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Litigation can become as great a passion as gambling.

There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one another and demand to live, and confirm the powerful in the wisdom which the immensity of the risks and the consciousness of their own disorder had given them. The world is more present to itself in all its parts than it ever was.

There is no longer any great risk that Freudian research will shock us by recalling what there is of the 'barbarian' in us; the risk is rather that its findings will be too easily accepted in an 'idealist' form…Today there is a race toward psychoanalysis, just as there was once a flight from it. Yesterday it was the spirit of evil; today one trims its claws and adopts it.