Quotes About Risk

The tried and tested becomes very boring. There's no way that the British equivalent of a Bryan Cranston would get the lead in a British equivalent of 'Breaking Bad.'

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

Testing a parachute drop of a heavy object is not simple.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

You have T20 and that also plays a part in some of the shots batsmen play. You see guys playing the same shots in T20s and Tests and are sometimes lucky to get away with it.

Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in an attempt to avoid accountability and put American lives at risk, including those of my former colleagues. She fails the basic tests of judgment and ethics any candidate for president must meet.

I thought of a sign I had seen... another scary time, when I was two hundred feet up in a giant karri tree in South West Australia. At the point where the precarious spiral ladder grew even steeper and narrower to reach the fire-watch platform atop the tree, the sign said: 'Reassess Your Situation Now: Turn Back if You Are Not Comfortable'. Then, as now, that seemed like damn good advice.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

Nunca puedes predecir lo que pasará en una pelea. Si eres lo bastante estúpido como para iniciar una, serás culpable de lo que ocurra, sea intencionado o no.

You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs

Guests wishing to stay longer should be warned that their rooms may explode.

Like they say, James: you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Two kids in a stolen car carrying guns and drugs. I tell you what: why don't we attract lots of attention by slaughtering the speed limit?

If I fall to my death, tell James and Bruce that they overdid it when they taught me how to get over my fear of heights.

What's the plan?' Kevin asked warily. Jake shrugged. 'Run like hell and try climbing over the fence.' 'Does that actually count as a plan?' Ronan asked.

Confidence is like going after Moby Dick with a rowboat, a harpoon and a jar of tartar sauce.

Splash or crash? Do you want special ops messing about in boats? Or special ops messing in aeroplanes?

Omally shook his head. 'Police stations are bad places to break into, this is well known.

Too often, the risk of careless or needless medical intervention is greater than the dangers of the illness itself.

What would you do if you knew you could not fail.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

The principle of moral risk suggests that it is more rational to aim for a smaller good which seems more probable of attainment than to aim for a larger one which seems less, when the two courses of action have equal probable goodness. Other things being equal, 'a high weight and the absence of risk increase pro tanto the desirability of the action to which they refer'.

Well," said he, as he left the ELEPHANT, "I have fought contrary to orders, and I shall perhaps be hanged. Never mind: let them!

Like all shopkeepers, they are deep-down optimists. They have to be, because every morning they unlock the doors to their stores, turn on the lights, prepare for the day, and wait for people to walk in and hand them money.