Quotes About Risk

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

I knew about that kind of love. I knew how it was to bare your palpitating heart, and be fearful as you did so that the beats should come too loudly, and betray you. I had kept my heart-beats smothered; and had been betrayed, anyway.

E feci un'altra riverenza strizzando l'occhio. Due cose curiose da fare assieme , e non vi consiglierei di provare: poiché temo che la strizzatina d'occhio abbia sbilanciato la riverenza, e sono certa che la riverenza abbia sciupato la strizzatina.

Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!" —MATTHEW 14:29

Be willing to go out on a limb with Me. If that is where I am leading you, it is the safet place to be... Your desire to live close to Me is at odds with your attempts to minimize risk. You are approaching a crossroads in your journey. In order to follow Me wholeheartedly, you must relinquish your tendency to play it safe.

I love you, Peggy Mostly. Not halfway—not until it becomes too difficult or dangerous. But always, and wherever it may lead.

Everything dangerous and risky was exciting. Maybe she should try some excitement.

She sat there in silence, holding the old woman's hand, and a strange tiny nugget of something like anticipation wriggled in her stomach like a mustard seed frying in hot ghee, jumping and popping. Everything nice and safe was boring. Everything dangerous and risky was exciting. Maybe she should try some excitement.

Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average .

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.

The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

One rabbit has a label on its are, another one doesn't. You can love the one with the label and everyone accepts that. Risk your life for a real animal and people say you're mad.

going to sea is like going to prison with the added possibility of drowning.

Jamie and the others come from a culture in which a fire alarm doesn't mean fire; it just means you get to go and stand outside and giggle for awhile. But a prawn or a peanut could still kill you.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

Defensive management is blind to recognizing how obsessing about preventing bad things also prevents good things from happening or sometimes even prevents anything from happening at all.

It's natural for people to protect what they know instead of leaping into the unknown, and managers are no exception. Managers might even be worse, as the politics they rely on to survive can make them more entrenched and defensive.