Quotes About Risk

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us.

Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

Some ideas are dangerous.

Lefty When they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Don't be afraid of anything, only fear death.

Nonsense. Fools refuse to try something new.

Life is a difficult choice between our loves and our fears. Love is the better use of a life, if you can find the courage for it. Love is hard, brave work, while fear is too easy - it is an early grave of comfy chairs and magazines and wasted heartbeats and hormones.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

How difficult it will be not to fall in love with him. How impossible, I thought worriedly, how tricky, to insist on not falling in love, to make my heart forget this strange, gentle man and this exciting night, to not get swept away. On the brink of sleep, enveloped in his breath, I thought how dangerous and complicated it would be, and how if I wasn't careful I might fall in love with him right at that very moment.

self-selecting process of elimination for most things life offered, such as risk and adventure.

Act as if were impossible to fail.

The test conditions that are chosen will depend on the test strategy or detailed test approach. For example, they might be based on risk, models of the system, likely failures, compliance requirements, expert advice or heuristics. The word 'heuristic' comes from the same Greek root as eureka, which means 'I find'. A heuristic is a way of directing your attention, a common sense rule useful in solving a problem.

Something told me to take a leap of faith. To go with the flow and take that leap. It was the crazy, idiotic part of me that I should probably ignore - but it was also the voice that spoke the loudest whenever Jack was involved. I couldn't stop myself from smiling. For one moment I felt the world stand still, and I allowed myself the indulgence of rebelling in doing something reckless and foolhardy because I was madly in love and I didn't have to worry about the consequences.

The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.

Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.

I always wanted to be blind folded and throw knives at a pretty girl spinning on one of them big wheels. back then i used to throw knives at everything, you know, to see how good my aim was. I tell you, i could hit a mosquito with a knife and pin it to a wall as it flew by.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.

Are you sure this is a good idea?' I ask. 'No,' says Amber. 'Let's do it.

An adventure is usually the penalty for lousy planning.

Everything that is going to kill you is extremely appetizing.

People come up to you and say, "Oh man, that's the scariest thing in the world what you do, talk in front of people." It's not scary to me. Your job is scary to me, fucking selling shoes in the mall for 30 years only to have the place go out of business.

We rarely hear warnings about playing it safe. We don't see headlines that say, ... Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.