Quotes About Risk

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars ' I'd wind up owing them money.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

It's better to create something that others criticize than to create nothing and criticize others. Ricky Gervais

But listen up Alex Rider.....

You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump. Washington was a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation.

A more effective approach in uncertain environments is to allow resources to be invested only when uncertainty is reduced, a core principle of options reasoning.

Too afraid of dying to really live.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Courageous people begin the journey knowing only the destination.

We tend to remember our mistakes more than other actions because they leave us feeling uncomfortable. And because we don't like feeling that way, we are less likely to repeat our mistakes. The same can also be said for taking chances and putting aside our fears.

Adventure is just bad planning.

Do you think it's a good idea?" Awful question! Here's the thing: only the market can tell if your idea is good. Everything else is just opinion. Unless you're talking to a deep industry expert, this is self-indulgent noise with a high risk of false positives.

Commitment can be cash, but doesn't have to be. Think of it in terms of currency—what are they giving up for you? A compliment costs them nothing, so it's worth nothing and carries no data. The major currencies are time, reputation risk, and cash.

There are some things people see in toilets that they wish they hadn't. What Trevor Hawkins sees might even cost him his life.

Rob Lloyd Jones

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to blow?

And they're right—what could be scarier, stupider, than staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons to be terrified?

I was afraid that I'd just ruined everything; it was the first time either of us had ever promised anything. But it felt all right. I guess making little promises made us braver about the bigger ones.

Renee loved to do things. That was mysterious to me, since I was more comfortable talking about things and never doing them. She liked passion. She liked adventure. I cowered from passion and talked myself out of adventure.