Quotes About Risk

Precisamente, la cautela exige tener una posibilidad inmediata de huida; precisamente, la cautela exige, como por desgracia ocurre muchas veces, arriesgar la vida.

The true path is along a rope, not a rope suspended way up in the air, but rather only just over the ground. It seems more like a tripwire than a tightrope.

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

The time I spent working in the wild west show in Paris had a pretty big impact on me. A friend of mine had hooked me up with the gig over there and I literally left Texas with a hundred dollar bill in my pocket and one way plane ticket to Paris.

The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

It's MMA, man, the wild, wild west. You can just expect that anything can happen, and that's just where I'm at with things.

I was actually wilder before I joined Cold Chisel. I was really wild.

Sometimes in football, like in life, you have to step into the wilderness. That's the way to get better. You have to try new things and be positive.

I think true wilderness can still be found, but it's hard to reach and dangerous when you get there, which is probably why it still exists.

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.

I will always choose the dollar bill carrying a wildly fluctuating discount rather than the dollar bill selling for a quite stable premium.

Chipotle was wildly successful, and I thought, 'Well, let me open one more.'

Climbing is wildly diverse, ranging from the rock-climbing wall at the local health club to the cutting edge of major Himalayan Alpine ascents.

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.