Quotes About Risk

Wallace Stegner noted in his classic biography of Powell, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders;

a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious, peril.

Jon Krakauer

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

A high-flying politician," Hopkinson wrote, "is I think not unlike a balloon—he is full of inflammability, he is driven along by every current of wind, and those who will suffer themselves to be carried up by them run a great risk that the bubble may burst and let them fall from the height to which a principle of levity had raised them."6

I'd been beguiled by the new technology—a toddler crawling toward a gun.

I'd been beguiled by the new technology -- a toddler crawling toward a gun.

if you get between the lawyer and his goal, you're going to get hurt.

The reason I don't worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I'll take those odds every f*cking day.

Volare non è mai pericoloso, Michael Davvero? Davvero. E' schiantarsi che è pericoloso

the chances of one civilization sticking around to get a message from another were vanishingly low, because it was too damned easy to split the atom.

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable.

you shouldn't try to save a drowning woman unless you were ready to drown yourself

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk.

The problem with a life freely chosen every day, a New Testament life, was that it could end at any moment.

She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek...Don't do that, I said. You just met me. This is New York.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.

I raised that kid like I was running an egg-and-spoon race through a minefield, and he was the egg.

We rolled back the clock in a full company meeting and shared each of the steps that came together to help us arrive at this decision that was going to impact everyone on the team. We wanted to show people what "risk being right" looked like to us. How

Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?

Man kann auch die Waldbrandgefahr mindern, indem man sämtliche Bäume fällt.

I am so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.