Quotes About Risk

He wrote, You're being crazy.     You're going to catch a cold. I already have a cold. You are going to catch a colder.

We would have been safe.

it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Alguien que no se anima a ser quien es por miedo a que lo rechacen, que no se anima a sentir lo que siente porque le parece que está mal, que no se anima a pensar lo que piensa o a decirlo porque tiene miedo de ser rechazado, alguien que no corre riesgos porque no se banca las responsabilidades y que no sale a buscar lo que necesita sino que se lo pide a otro, alguien así no llega a ser una persona y, por lo tanto, vamos a tener que pensar que es un individuo.

Para volar hay que empezar asumiendo riesgos.

Siempre hay dos opciones existenciales: estamos en el amor o estamos en el miedo. Cuando estamos instalados en el miedo, tememos ser heridos y el corazón se cierra, el ego toma el control y queremos un disfrute sin riesgos. Nos volvemos posesivos, queremos todo de todos, que nos contengan, que nos tengan en cuenta permanentemente, que no nos sofoquen ni manipulen.

Yo tuve más miedo que el, porque no se trataba solo de gusto y amor, la cosa era de coraje tambien. Había que tener muchas güevas para meterse con una mujer como Rosario.

Tudo está dito: falta aposta.

Todo hombre memorable corre el albur de ser amonedado en anécdotas ['Every memorable man runs the risk of being minted in anecdotes']

las pruebas de la muerte son estadísticas y nadie hay que no corra el albur de ser el primer inmortal

La Historia (que, a semejanza de cierto director cinematográfico, procede por imágenes discontinuas) propone ahora la de una arriesgada taberna, que está en el todopoderoso desierto igual que en alta mar.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.

The passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

There is nothing more dangerous than a lengthy cocktail hour.

proportionately, being a journalist in a war is more dangerous than being in the Special Forces, and more important.