Quotes About Risk

every man must risk something so that in the end he does not have to risk everything.

In a con game, you use his greed. You make the first move, and

Business is a game,' David told Kate, 'played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

I couldn't believe it. Riley didn't flip the puck into the net to put us ahead. He actually held onto the puck and continued around the Chiefs' net. It stunned the crowd into silence. Riley Judd had just given up a chance at his third goal of the game.

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

This is perhaps the real secret of heroism. The rational basis of heroism is dependent upon the decision that one's own life cannot be worth as much as certain abstract common ideals. But I believe that instinctive or impulsive heroism is much more frequently independent of such motivation and simply defies danger on the assurance which animated Hans, the stone-cutter, a character in Anzengruber, who always said to himself: Nothing can happen to me.

It's always good to start off anything by breaking a rule.

Good days are granted to sensible people, but the grandest of days are enjoyed by those who dare to act unwisely.

twas somewhat about good days falling to wise folk, but the best days of all falling to those who dare to be unwise.

Die Armee ist ein zu gefährlicher Ort für Theaterkritiker. - Macro

You'd have to be a mad dog or a Celt to venture out into the noonday gales in this dump, I tell you.

Shit . . . Well, in for a sestertius, in for a denarius.

Jestliže nÄ›kdy platí, že nutnost je matkou invence, pak je rovn?ž možné, že ohrožení je matkou kryptoanalýzy.

the first axiom in flight school: takeoff is voluntary, but landing is compulsory.

it was a brave man who ate the first oyster

learning comes only from the taking of chances and risk

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

C'est en risquant sa vie que l'homme s'élève au-dessus de l'animal.

El hombre se eleva sobre el animal al arriesgar la vida, no al darla, por eso la humanidad acuerda superioridad al sexo que mata y no al que engendra.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

It is because there are real dangers, real failures and real earthly damnation that words like victory, wisdom, or joy have meaning. Nothing is decided in advance, and it is because man has something to lose and because he can lose that he can also win.

Exister, c'est oser se jeter dans le monde. »

Ser libre es lanzarse en el mundo sin cálculo, sin apuestas, es definir uno mismo toda apuesta, toda medida.