Quotes About Risk

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

I've been so unlucky with dates for myself. So why not have someone else pick them for me?

Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.

Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?

It was a tricky one as I had other clubs interested in me, not as big as United. I wasn't guaranteed game time anywhere, so why not take this opportunity at the biggest club in the world? If it doesn't work out, I can always go somewhere else. That was my mindset at the time.

One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed.

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?

When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?

Why not play the most possessions you can play if you're the best defensively and offensively? Any time possessions are cut down, then a bad call, a missed shot then you have a chance to lose.

Part of me says it's kind of crazy to think you can fly your human body. Another part of me thinks all of us have had the dream that we can fly. Why not chase after it?

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.

It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.

Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.

Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open.

Relying on intelligence as the chief touchstone for decisions about whether and when to attack creates a wide opening for misunderstandings, divergent interpretations, and vulnerabilities to parties with an interest in either attack or delay.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.