Quotes About Risk

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.

If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

K? nào chÆ°a t?ng m?c ph?i lá»—i l?m cÅ©ng là k? chÆ°a bao gi? thá»­ làm vi?c gì c?

In real-life situations, however, risks frequently increase without any corresponding increase in the payoff:

Isn't there something in living dangerously?

Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

So in a certain sense disintegration may have its advantages. But of course it's dangerous, horribly dangerous. Suppose you couldn't get back, out of the chaos...

Apart from sewerage systems and synthetic vitamins, you don't seem to do anything at all about prevention. And yet you've got a proverb: prevention is better than cure. But cure, said Will, is so much more dramatic than prevention.

You couldn't have lower-caste people wasting the Community's time over books, and that there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably decondition one of their reflexes.

But I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.

He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her. Dared he face the risk of being humiliated by a contemptuous refusal? But if she were to say yes, what rapture!

Pero yo no quiero la comodidad. Yo quiero a Dios, quiero la poesía, quero el verdadero riesgo, quiero la libertad, quiero la bondad. Quiero el pecado. -En resumen, (...), usted reclama el derecho a ser desgraciado.

Apoderarse de un corazón que no está acostumbrado a los ataques es entrar en una ciudad abierta y sin guarnición.

No hace falta conocer el peligro para tener miedo; de hecho, los peligros desconocidos son los que inspiran más temor.

Only he who has never been in danger is really saved.

WESSON: Volare giù dalle cascate e non morire... nessuno lo dice, ma qui è il sogno di tutti. SMITH: Ma da quando? WESSON: Da sempre. Noi campiamo delle cascate, ma loro fanno quel che vogliono. L'unico modo sarebbe quello di entrarci dentro e uscirne vivi. E' da sempre che ci aspettiamo che qualcuno lo faccia. SMITH: Sono cinquanta metri che finiscono nell'inferno, Wesson! WESSON: Sì, ma una strada c'è. Me l'ha insegnata mio padre.

I mercanti cinesi, olandesi e inglesi avevano cercato ripetutamente di rompere quell'assurdo isolamento, ma avevano ottenuto soltanto di metter su una fragile e pericolosa rete di contrabbando. Ci avevano guadagnato pochi soldi, molti guai e alcune leggende, buone da vendere nei porti, la sera.

We have beams that can make people sick or kill them with microwaves.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

most of the great accomplishments of the world have not been made by people who were certain.

Courage is a conscious decision. You do it in a dangerous situation, when you have a choice.