Quotes About Risk

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

The only way to find out was to try.

once you have lifted your foot, do not be in a hurry to put it down again: who can tell what menacing nest of vipers you might step on.

Tuttavia, nessuno in paese usciva mai di casa quando era buio. Perché il buio, dicevano i genitori, il buio è pieno di cose che è decisamente meglio non incontrare.

Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

It is weird and unsettling that a person who is hired to handle your money, make wise decisions about it, and, ostensibly, keep you from losing it is called a broker.

She was a woman who thrived on danger, but when the danger ended, she couldn't find a way to be happy.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

It isn't that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But like rogue waves and shooting stars, they also add thrills to a life that otherwise would be as regular as the tide, as routine as day passing into night.

If you don't take a chance, someone else will give you his luck. And if you get bad luck, then you need to take another chance to turn things from bad to good.

bad, how likely is it to come

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. "I

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.

And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths—first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

At sixteen Sabina took moon baths, first of all because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous. The effect of moon baths was unknown, but it was intimated that it might be the opposite of the sun's effect. The first time she exposed herself she was frightened. What would the consequences be?

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain people and expands them beyond all laws; there is no time, no place for regrets, hesitations, cowardices. Love runs free and reckless, and all the gentle trickeries perpetrated to protect others from its burns-those who are not the lovers but who might be the victims of this love's expansion.

There is a fantastic courage in this, to live without laws, without fetters, without thought of consequences.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

La vida se encoge o se expande en proporción al coraje que uno tenga.

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, intuition, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

He overlooks the voluptuousness of half-knowledge, half-possession, of leaning over the edge dangerously, for no specific climax.