Quotes About Risk

I've been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

If you're the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you're that kind of person, you'll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

again potentially epigenetics). For instance, abused and/or neglected children have an incredibly high risk for addiction (and other adult-life psychological issues) regardless of genetic influences. Furthermore, the more times a child is traumatized, the greater the likelihood of adverse reactions, such as addiction, later in life. One study found that survivors of chronic childhood trauma (four or

Should they remain on the drugs for years, they are at high risk of becoming chronically depressed. They may also develop—as the American Psychiatric Association warns in one of its textbooks—an "apathy syndrome," which "is characterized by a loss of motivation, increased passivity, and often feelings of lethargy and 'flatness.

If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient?

The "cure," it seemed, had once again been proven to be "worse than the disease.

Any single guy who doesn't eat peanut butter is at risk of starvation.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Søren Kierkegaard: «Atreverse es perderse un instante, no atreverse es perderse para siempre».

Zas!, perdió... pero lo notable es que estaba asustado de la suerte que había tenido... él mismo hasta entonces había tenido una relativa confianza en su martingala...

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move all one's books.

Je loopt altijd gevaar. Dat is de zuivere waarheid. Je loopt altijd gevaar en bent een speelbal van het lot, zelfs op de meest onwaarschijnlijke plaatsen.

That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion.

People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

We did hard things for each other. Risked our lives. Gave up our lives and faced death, and then faced life again. You might be surprised to find that facing life can be much harder than facing death.

You can't play in shit and not get some on you.

I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.

This was a young man who had killed, but never before been in imminent danger of being killed. I felt oddly qualified to introduce him to the sensation.

The weapon we throw away today is the one at our throats tomorrow

You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught.