Quotes About Risk

Loose lips sink ships.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning

Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.

Affairs have their own brand of passion. Secrecy, torment, guilt, transgression, danger, risk, and jealousy are highly combustible, a Molotov cocktail, an erotic explosion far too threatening in a home with children.

invite you to think about ways you might introduce risk to safety, mystery to the familiar, and novelty to the enduring.

If you trade passion for stability, you basically trade one fiction for another. Both are products of our imagination.

trust is also a leap of faith—"a risk masquerading as a promise,"7 as Adam Phillips writes.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before…to test your limits…to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —Anaïs Nin

When we love we always risk the possibility of loss—by criticism, rejection, separation, and ultimately death—regardless of how hard we try to defend against it. Introducing uncertainty sometimes requires nothing more than letting go of the illusion of certitude. In this shift of perception, we recognize the inherent mystery of our partner.

The one theme that I hear above all else from those who have bitten into the forbidden apple is this: It makes them feel alive.

To quote Rachel Botsman, "Trust is a confident relationship to the unknown.

They could neither go back nor remain in place. Like their wagons, they had no brakes, no way of stopping the high-stakes journey on which they had wagered their lives and fortunes.

Welcome! I said—the most dangerous word in the world.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

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You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.

But risk perception may not be about quantifiable risk so much as it is about immeasurable fear.

We do not tend to be afraid of the things that are most likely to harm us. We drive around in cars, a lot. We drink alcohol, we ride bicycles, we sit too much. And we harbor anxiety about things that, statistically speaking, pose us little danger. We fear sharks, while mosquitoes are, in terms of sheer numbers of lives lost, probably the most dangerous creature on earth.

Immunity is a public space. And it can be occupied by those who choose not to carry immunity. For some of the mothers I know, a refusal to vaccinate falls under a broader resistance to capitalism. But refusing immunity as a form of civil disobedience bears an unsettling resemblance to the very structure the Occupy movement seems to disrupt--a privileged 1 percent are sheltered from risk while they draw resources from the other 99 percent.

And I suspect that Coca-Cola, unpoisoned, is more harmful to our children than vaccination.

The purpose of risk management is to improve the future, not to explain the past.

Management exists to keep the company on a steady course and provide reliability and predictability. Paradoxically, this can create blindspots that go beyond work processes and procedures, adversely affecting a company's core strategy.

There are so many doors to walk through in life, you can't be afraid of all of them, even if you know one of them might be your last.