Quotes About Risk

I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

If you're Natalie Dormer, you can take big fashion risks and shave half your head, and it looks good. If you're a normal person and you try that, you just look like you had recent brain surgery.

But one thing I will impart to my children is: If you're scared of something, that isn't a sign that you have to do it. It probably means you shouldn't do it.

My theory is that this is because there's a huge overlap between people who are good at Frisbee and people who do Teach for America. The same instinct to make at-risk kids learn, which I admire so much, becomes deadly when turned on friends trying to relax on a Sunday afternoon in the park.

Which is why you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them.

Unlike other athletes, Frisbee people won't let it go. My theory is that this is because there's a huge overlap between people who are good at Frisbee and people who do Teach for America. The same instinct to make at-risk kids learn, which I admire so much, becomes deadly when turned on friends trying to relax on a Sunday afternoon in the park.

In a way, I realized, every woman risked her life when bringing a child into the world. Labor and delivery were serious business, and not for the faint of heart. Yet down through the centuries women took that risk, willing to trade life for life.

People often chase the danger they're least afraid of to distract them from the part of life that scares them most.

No pierdas el tiempo teniendo miedo del amor.

Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.

It was a new experience to walk across the city in tiny shorts and a half shirt… I often felt that I would be shot in the back with an arrow or gun, but this didn't happen. The world wasn't safer than I had thought; on the contrary, it was so dangerous that my practically naked self fit right in, like a car crash, it happened every day.

Don't wait to be sure or you'll miss the boat, hop on and move, move, move.

But I knew jumping was like dying, I would have to let go of everything.

What are the dangers of allowing fear to influence our decisions?

rule number eight: noting ventured, nothing gained

Every man and woman has chosen the "Everest" he or she wants to climb in life. Many who have tried climbing without a guide have discovered how treacherous the journey can be.

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

His debts approached three thousand dollars and, as Ponzi liked to say, his only assets were his hopes.

CIA case officers, or COs,

If you've got to go into combat, don't go by glider. Walk, crawl, parachute, swim, float—anything. But don't go by glider!

He wondered what drove Dave Tarantino into that brick oven to crawl through jagged rubble, flip onto his back, and leg-press a load of burning debris, knowing that it might crash down on top of him. Dave Thomas decided that he'd never seen a more courageous act. But it worried him—he feared that Dave Tarantino

You have to go out, but you don't have to come back.