Quotes About Risk

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

One. My tongue was at a new level of uselessness. Two. Oh my God, I'm really doing this. Three. OK, fuck it, let's dance.

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.

Good ideas rarely seem like good ideas at their inception, that's what stops the majority of people from having them

If you can't make a smart play, you make a bat-shit crazy one.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. —Peter Drucker

Second, building trust requires risk—mostly emotional. Testing strengthens trust. Friendships grow while working through difficulties together and finding resolution. This includes clarifying misunderstandings, admitting wrong, apologizing and forgiving. As we deal with the bumps in a relationship, mutual confidence increases. Soon both parties are confident the other will not intentionally hurt them.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

One has to move from one's comfort zone to challenge oneself.

Lloyd There's really nothing to worry about Mary. Statistically they say you're more likely to get killed on the way to the airport. You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck That's the worst I have this cousin, well y'know, I had this cousin...

Alternatively, we could keep on as we are: ignoring or playing down the risks and putting responsibility for action elsewhere. But that would mean taking a monumental gamble with our children's future, and a species as intelligent as ours surely wouldn't do that. Would it?

It may be, in fact, that once a system has attained a certain level of complexity, there is no way to rule out the possibility of failure.29 If so, we need not only better tools for thinking about systemic risk, but also a better way of thinking about how to respond to systemic failures when they inevitably occur.

Birds of a feather flock together, but opposites attract. Absence indeed makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight is out of mind. Look before you leap, but he who hesitates is lost.

It's gonna take someone getting seriously sick. Football didn't do much 'bout steroids until Lyle Alzado died. That's the way of the world. Until your house burns down, you don't worry about getting smoke detectors.

What's the use if you don't abuse, if tomorrow never comes, everything you lose.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

A story is the record of how somebody deals with danger.

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.