Quotes About Risk

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

surely by now you realize that you can't trust anyone. But why not take a chance?' *

Their settlement was famous for its dissolving architecture; at any moment a balcony might disappear and drop people to their deaths. This did not happen so often that it was monotonous, but often enough to make living there exciting.

A name was a dangerous luxury here.

You know what they say about skydivers, right? There are old skydivers and bold skydivers, but there are no old, bold skydivers.

As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.

Change usually begins with someone feeling a level of desperation that leads him or her to take constructive risks and experiment with alternative ways of being that previously felt inaccessible.

I put &pound150 000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back &pound1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked "Bet Here," but only one window with the legend "Pay Out."

Romance," said Antony. "A con so crazy that by the time the bullet's in the chamber, you don't know if you've taken someone or you've been taken.

There are times in world history when it is far wiser to act than to hesitate," and "there is some risk involved in action—there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

For instance, even though entrepreneurs in technology often know the statistics that about 80 percent of founders are forced out of their companies by their venture capital investors, I have never heard anyone tell me that this would happen to them. In

The moment you have a self there is the temptation to put it forward, to put it first and at the center of things. And the more we are--socially or intellectually or politically or economically--the greater the risk of increasing self-worship.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

The biggest risk is not in what you build. It is in not supporting what you build.

We can only grow if we dare to do what we not dare to do

Drills held weekly. All illusions are interactive, but unable to harm you! However, in the event of an emergency, yell Goldilocks, and the battle will stop immediately.* *Students who end Professor Harlow's simulation do so at their own risk.

All that mattered was reaching Anna. Anna, with her bright smile, bubbly enthusiasm, big eyes, and need to fill every moment with chatter. Anna, with her feisty nature and strong will that had saved him from the wolves... and cost him his sleigh. Anna, who was willing to risk her life to save her village and help a princess she didn't think she knew. Leave it to him to wait till now to realize he was falling for her.

You never know what you'll find out about yourself when you stretch outside your comfort zone.

Students who end Professor Harlow's simulation do so at their own risk.

I did it because I was so scared!