Quotes About Risk

Uns não vivem por temer morrer; eu não morro por temer viver.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

I tell it like it is, from real experience. I want to tell people that freedom is great, but that it can also be dangerous.

Time to remind them that trapping a Rogue doesn't make him dead, just deadlier.

Risk is the increased consequence of failure.

it was one of those cases I found so common later in government, where the risk of acting was far less than the risk of doing nothing

Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and with little regard for the people they were expected to serve. Weber famously warned that those who allow themselves to be guided by rules will soon find that those rules have defined their identities and commitments.

We don't 'see' odds – how likely the thing is – we 'see' consequences. That's what people would mean if they were to say 'picture the risk'. They mean picture the worst that can happen.

Could we ignore it instead? The chance that a stranger will try to abduct Norm or any other young child is on average extremely small; the chance that the stranger will succeed is far lower than that. The chance that someone will murder your child is smaller again. For murder by a stranger of a child under five, even that risk drops 97 percent. If you are a parent, by far the biggest violent risk to your child, on average, is you.

But caution can have unintended consequences. After the 9/11 attacks in New York, many people felt more nervous of flying and took to their cars instead. Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer states that 1,500 more people than usual were killed on US roads over the following year.10

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

Anything that liberates is not without risk.

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried," Puck

For one, he was worried he'd get killed, which was something he generally tried to avoid.

death was permanent, and should be avoided if possible.

YOLO You only live once it is a very powerful and misleading quote but very good

Teams take serious chances when they try to make large changes without tests. It is like doing aerial gymnastics without a net.

Superficially, Edit and Pray seems like "working with care," a very professional thing to do. The "care" that you take is right there at the forefront, and you expend extra care when the changes are very invasive because much more can go wrong. But safety isn't solely a function of care.

Vivian had found trouble early and often, and discovered that instead of it scaring her, it only made her feel more alive.

A bit early to put all the chips in the fryer just yet. Why don't you just wait and see? Remember: There's a reason the Fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers.

I risked my heart on you and lost. Can you honestly say you did the same?

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

I learned always to avoid glorious campaigns—everyone is more likely to die in glorious campaigns.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.