Quotes About Risk

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone

Nassim Taleb, a statistician, risk analyst, and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, calls it the "Lucretius Problem." Named

Things are fearsome enough, without taking a road that must lead destruction.

Given the chance, she would take adventure to security, if security meant building a hut from sticks and settling down to a diet of raw meat and fruit. She would be crazy in a month.

There was no telling what dangers that land concealed, but it seemed to call to her.

With a lot more courage than common sense, she stood at the back of the wagon and faced the oncoming angels. Once again, all Cirocco could see was her back as she stood between her love and approaching danger.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

Humans are actually far more likely to get taken out by an impact event or a supervolcano than we are to get killed in a crash of a commercial airliner.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

A lot of guys make mistakes, I guess, but every one we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. We make a mistake, and some guy don't walk away - forevermore, he don't walk away

Think Ya Can Make It Pilgrim?

Fear is just one of the many words I don't know the meaning of.

Courage is being completely paralyzed with fear and taking the first step anyway. Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

There are rewards for hawks and dogs when they have done us service; but for a soldier that hazards his limbs in a battle, nothing but a kind of geometry is his last supportation.

If there was only the "right" way to do something, Fosbury would never have flopped

What do a few thousands, or a few millions of people matter? Women will just go on making the loss good. But Governments are important–one mustn't risk them.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence," she said reflectively.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.