Quotes About Risk

the use of rewards as a motivational strategy is clearly a risky proposition, so we continue to argue for thinking about educational practices that will engage students' interest and support the development of their self-regulation.

In the future, we will surely have even bigger such bubbles, each built up around its new and different new era story, and we will have to invent new names for them.

The word bubble creates a mental picture of an expanding soap bubble, which is destined to pop suddenly and irrevocably. But speculative bubbles are not so easily ended; indeed, they may deflate somewhat, as the story changes, and then reflate.

I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army! --Mat Cauthon

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Both of them? Mat spluttered. Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

And yet many of us do it without families, Nynaeve said. Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

A man can get killed in there.

Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

A man would know he had to walk through fire and tame a lioness with his bare hands every time he approached you. Every day an adventure, and every night . . .

It was easier to ask forgiveness, than permission.

We'll toss the dice however they fall, And snuggle the girls be they short or tall, Then follow young Mat whenever he calls, To dance with Jak o' the Shadows.

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land.

One of the first rules he'd learned in life was to never fight a man when you had an equal chance of losing.

The weak must be bold cautiously.

when a dangerous path was your only route to safety, you had to take it.

Its time to role the dice.

Are you sure you want to come, Mat?" Rand asked. Mat shrugged and affected a grin, not a very confident one. "Who could pass up a chance to see bloody Rhuidean?" Egwene raised her eyebrows at him. "Oh, pardon my language, Aes Sedai . I've heard you say as bad, and for less cause, I'll wager.

Men kept sticking their hands in the fire thinking this time it would not burn, so

Which cliff did you choose? Pevara sent him. What? You said that when you were among the Sea Folk, they jumped off cliffs to prove their bravery. The higher the cliff, the braver the jumper. Which cliff did you choose? The highest, he admitted. Why? I figured that once you've decided to jump off a cliff, you might as well pick the highest one. Why accept the risk, if not for the greatest prize?