Quotes About Risk

The knife closest to you causes more harm than the one far from you.

It was one thing for adults to choose to take risks, another thing to impose those risks on children (or anyone else). The EPA wisely refocused attention on this crucial distinction: "Having a choice to take a risk for themselves should not permit smokers to impose a risk on others.

What are the relative risks of ignoring scientific claims that turn out to be true versus acting on claims that turn out to be false?194 The risks of not flossing are real, but not inordinate. The risks of not acting on the scientific evidence of climate change are inordinate.

The results showed a fivefold increase in breast cancer risk among women with high levels of serum DDT or its metabolites.59 DDT does cause cancer, it does affect human health, and it does cost human lives. Rachel Carson was not wrong.

Ask forgiveness, not permission,

From triumph to failure is only one step.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

There is a joy in danger.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Economic, financial, and political predictors… are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients—and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

He'd learned a lot in the short time he'd been with the Cahills, and one of the biggest lessons was not to hold back. Go for it now, because you never knew what could happen the next day, or even the next minute . - Pony