Quotes About Risk

As we continue upriver, we move farther and farther away from the world I know, and toward someone else's. It's thrilling to not know where you're going.

Quanto mais exótico é o manjar, mais aventuroso é o verdadeiro gourmet e maior a probabilidade de algum incómodo posterior. Não me vou negar aos prazeres de uma morcela, ou de um sashimi, ou mesmo de uma ropa vieja na tasca cubana, só porque às vezes não me sinto muito bem algumas horas depois.

Which is how I found myself in a bathroom full of machine-guns.

Não dá certo ter dois cozinheiros fortemente armados a esmurrar-se no meio da linha por causa de uma situação melindrosa, tendo à volta recipientes cheios de óleo a ferver e facas afiadas como navalhas.

I'm just saying, I guess, that I got very lucky. And luck is not a business model.

By this, I mean simply that many times in my life the statistical probabilities of a fatal outcome have been overwhelming thanks to my sins of excess and poor judgment and my inability to say no to anything that sounded as if it might have been fun. By all rights I should have been, at various times: shot to death, stabbed to death, imprisoned for a significant period of time, or at very least, victimized by a casaba-sized tumor.

Sometimes you see the uninviting door and just have to go through it.

Todas las noches, durante un par de segundos, y a lo largo de algunos metros, dejaba mi vida en suspenso. Porque según cuál fuera la siguiente canción que sonara en la radio, decidía dar un volantazo en el momento apropiado y seguir disparado hacia casa, a toda velocidad, o enderezar al hijo de puta y precipitarme hacia el barranco y el océano.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions, when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

I kept pushing the old noga through the floorboards near, and the Durango 95 ate up the road like spaghetti.

The religious impulse can be very dangerous. It damages, sometimes permanently.

Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre - I go to seek a great perhaps.

I loved that job. I'd drive recklessly, breaking all the laws, speeding and going on the wrong side of the street and cutting around traffic to make my deliveries so I could take my time getting back to the store.

To hold a friend in the background at a certain stage of a love affair is a technique some men like to employ; a method which spreads, as it were, the emotional load, ameliorating risks of dual conflict between the lovers themselves, although at the same time posing a certain hazard in the undue proximity of a third party unencumbered with emotional responsibility – and therefore almost always seen to better advantage than the lover himself.

Adventures only happen to adventurers,' Mr Deacon had said one evening when we were sitting drinking in the saloon bar of the Mortimer.

If you're prepared, and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there. —MARK CUBAN

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.

most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

Never test the depth of the river with both feet. —WARREN BUFFETT

As Warren Buffett says, "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. —ARISTOTLE

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

Why do people persist in an unsatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing. It's like the old proverbs say: "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know

The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something, we avoid it; we won't do it.