Quotes About Risk

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Non pretenderei troppo da lei arrischiai.Non si può ripetere il passato. Non si può ripetere il passato? fece lui incredulo. Ma certo che si può!

True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.

The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

The Proximity of a Desirable Thing Tempts One to Overindulgence. On That Path Lies Danger.

To exist is to stand out, away from the background, The Preacher said. You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.

It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

You, Priest in your mufti, you are a chaplain to the self-satisfied. I come not to challenge Muad'Dib but to challenge you! Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation? Answer me, Priest!

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

Are you a believer or just playing safe?

To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.

You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.

Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name?

he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." —

I hold at your neck the gom jabbar," she said. "The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison.