Quotes About Risk

Freeleng!" Wilcox

Às pessoas saudáveis faço o seguinte apelo: não teimem em ler apenas esses livros saudáveis, travem um conhecimento mais estreito, também, com a literatura dita doentia, que vos transmitirá, decerto, uma cultura edificante. As pessoas saudáveis deveriam sempre expor-se um pouco ao perigo. Senão, com mil raios, para que serve ser saudável? Simplesmente para, num determinado dia, morrer de boa saúde?

A quienes conservan el sano juicio les hago el siguiente llamamiento: no leáis siempre y de manera exclusiva esos libros sanos; acercaos un poquito a la llamada literatura enfermiza, de la que tal vez podáis sacar un consuelo vital. La gente sana debería arriesgarse siempre de una u otra manera. ¿Para qué demonios, si no, conservar el sano juicio? ¿Para morir un día saludablemente? Vaya un futuro desolador

Fine, let's have the We're-safe-in-here-it's-INSANE-for-you-to-go-out conversation instead.

They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And this task could not be undertaken in opposition to the Asuras, but only with their help. The pronouncement ran contrary to everything the Devas had previously thought. But in the end, what did they have to lose, given that their lives were so futile? Now they thought: Anything, so long as there be a trial, a risk, a task.

To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest - a fuller life or a life diminished and confined. It was a game for adult players.

I am like a man who has built his house on the lip of a volcano. Until the volcano claims me I live, in a sense, heriocally.

Supply and Why We Are Increasingly at Risk (Basic Books, 1997; Penguin, 1998).

I come to call down my destiny - and it is tall and dangerous!

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

And what if it doesn't work?" "Then both of us end our existence tonight," he said in that impassive we're-chained-to-the-wall-and-the-bad-guys-are-coming voice I remembered too well.

F1 racer Mario Andretti said: 'If everything seems under control you're not going fast enough.

The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.

Every year that I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well." —Mary Cholmondeley

To risk is to live.

the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.

If you wait for conditions to be perfect before you launch your highest dream, you'll never begin.)

The real risk lies in riskless living

as André Gide observed, "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

on your deathbed, in the twilight of your life, it will not be all the risks you took that you will regret the most.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is the fear of failure.

As we leave our comfort zones, the ancient brain gets triggered. As we raise our expertise and lift our influence, it gets frightened by the change.