Quotes About Risk

To cement the solidarity of their hunting parties, says Boehm, so all members would keep participating in the arduous and risky expeditions, members shared equally whatever meat they bagged—no matter who had delivered the death blow that day, or who had fashioned the spearpoint.

I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

life is risk. The only choice is, are you the taker or the taken?

You've found that there is something that can make you feel, and make you feel present: sex. Not the routine, dusk-and-dawn sex of a trusted, established relationship, but illicit, dangerous sex. Sex that is novel and leaves you sore; that is experienced in the gaps between your mundane, moral life; that is strange and breathless and addictive.

The fearful are the failing.

It's fear that keeps me away from the train tracks.

Geim's perspective, blunt as you like, is that it's "better to be wrong than be boring," so he lets those working on the FNEs stay free enough to take risks and, inevitably, fail.16

He had been exercising the caution of the fox he resembled, who walked into nothing without checking first to see if it was a trap.

not all relationships end in pain. Once in a while it's worth trusting your instincts and taking a risk.

I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.

There's nothing safe about love. Commitment takes bravery because there is every chance you'll be badly hurt. Not ever getting involved, just moving from one experience to the next—that's the safe choice.

And I know that when you're scared, the best thing to do is throw yourself into whatever it is that scares you. Just do it. Don't think about what could go wrong. That's a surefire way of never doing anything in life.

You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun.

If you don't push yourself to do the things that scare you, how will you ever find out if there's more to life than the one you're living?

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

In Aunt Boo's opinion, it was better to know how to avoid danger than to avoid dangerous places.

Who, in 2007, would have thought that a drawing by Willem De Kooning would be a safer asset than shares in Lehman Brothers? By autumn 2008, this would clearly be the case.

Unlike those in other professions, artists cut the branch they are sitting on.