Quotes About Risk

not bad isn't good enough, not bad can get you killed.

Always a dangerous pastime

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war…. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

IF A SYSTEM CAN BE EXPLOITED, IT WILL BE. ANY SYSTEM CAN BE EXPLOITED. CHAPTER

WHEN BIG SYSTEMS FAIL, THE FAILURE IS OFTEN BIG

Reviewing the 6 meltdowns that had occurred in the 54 trials that had been conducted to date, that source estimated the risk to be one in a hundred million.

When we risk no contradiction,It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...

some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart...

If you hear the explosion, you're okay. But

NO ONE starts a trip thinking that they might crash. Even though there is always a possibility, no one in their right mind ever begins a journey thinking that it's going to end in failure. There are only two types of people in the world who are aware and plan on crashing before they ever start : test pilots and teenage boys.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

However, the inevitable happened and one of the barrels exploded

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Dad used to say, "Death is a part of it all." I say it's the ugly part. But it's why I'm here, why Eiger climbers come. We come because they died, and by dying they created this legend, and we want to be a part of the legend, without dying.

not everyone could walk into the dark and make the hard choice.

Don't deal in the possibilities of the possibility.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Look ere ye leap.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

The fat is in the fire.