Quotes About Risk

I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down at the ground. You feel for it with your legs. Your knees are your shock absorbers - you cannot tighten them. Same as skiing.

Remember, the only way to avoid a "no" is not to try

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

It's easier to get forgiveness than permission. If you wait for permissions and authorizations, your ideas will stall and never see the light of day.

We should do something when people think it's crazy, if people say it's good it means someone is doing it already. —Hajime Mitari, president of Canon

Life, he wrote, "is a dangerous situation." It is the frailty of life that makes it precious;

Nor was caution a sufficient protection to those who kept aloof; for darts, discharged from engines or by the hand, inflicted wounds on most of them; and thus the brave and the timid, though of unequal merit, were exposed to equal danger.

Mr. Winston once purchased a 726-carat stone in London, setting off a heated debate about the safest way to get it back to the States. A league of bodyguards? Chartered ship? Colossal insurance policy? Harry Winston wouldn't say which method he'd picked. Two weeks later, the priceless jewel arrived at his Fifth Avenue store, sent via standard registered mail, for 64 cents postage.

Caution is good, but sometimes courage is better.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion just waiting to happen.

You can't have it both ways, Jess. There's are sure thing and then there's happiness--- but you gotta take the risk.

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

En una corrida de toros podría morirme de una sobredosis de susto y gusto

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

But I fell back on those immortal words at the base of all good decision making: Fuck it.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

could be an antidote to clinical depression. Smith fed off risk and nerves for the rest of his life, noticeable early with his cavalier photo work in combat zones in the Pacific theater of World War II, and he fell into deep depressions when the urgency wasn't there.

In a depressed era when most young adults grasped for any foothold they could find, the nineteen-year-old Smith had already given up a major university scholarship and challenged a prominent magazine's editorial boundaries until he was fired. He wouldn't follow his father's burdened, suit-and-tie path to an early death; he might kill himself, but in a different way.

It is a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there.

I might face death any minute now! But I should try not to put myself in harms' way as long as I can live. Of course it is not important if I die, because this is going to happen anyway. I know my purpose, my purpose is: How will my life or death impact the lives of others?

Fool Me Twice I took a risk by reinvesting myself I took an even bigger one when I began to care But I tightened the knot of the noose around my neck When I began to Love you again You kicked the chair out from under me So I didn't even have to jump

A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won't sit on a cold stove either.