Quotes About Risk

You have to be willing to get burned if you want to develop the skill of putting out fires.

Developing new ideas requires questions and approaches that most people won't understand initially, which leaves many true innovators at risk of becoming lonely, misunderstood characters.

Of course, it's wrong to set a fire on purpose, but if you have a small fire already burning, let it burn and see who, if anyone, complains, runs away, or comes to help. Similar truths are discovered by breaking rules: you need to break some to learn which are just for show and which ones matter.

safeguards don't make you safe; they make you lazy.

Permission, on creative matters, is for cowards.

Innovating comes at a price: it might be money, time, sanity, friends, or marriages, but there will definitely be one.

safeguards don't make you safe; they make you lazy. People drive faster, not more slowly, in cars with antilock brakes. American football players take more risks, not fewer, because of their padding.

creativity is rarely efficient. It always involves taking chances and trying things that might work but might not. The question then is: are we willing to spend time to be interesting, to think interesting thoughts and make interesting things? We all have the power, but perhaps not the willingness.

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble — and you go to strip clubs.

Love's the only game I know where two can play and, still, both can lose

To try something new, we have to be willing to check our egos at the door. We have to move out from under what is comfortable and be willing to take the risk of being bad at something, or making fools of ourselves, or letting people ask those questions like, "Barbecue? Why barbecue?" When they ask that, we can say, "Because it's fun!

Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.

You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

Tonight is delicate business," said Drakasha. "Misstepping in Port Prodigal after midnight is like pissing on an angry snake. I need—" "Ahem," said Locke. "Originally, we're from Camorr." "Be on the boat in five minutes," said Drakasha.

It is possible," said Locke with a sheepish grin, "that I have been slightly too bold.

Careful, Sofia," said Don Lorenzo. "Don't teach a sailor to shit in the ocean," she muttered.

Can't fear the fire if you don't scald your fingertips.

If the whole things goes to shit, just remember to throw yourself down the damn waterfall." "I'll cover your back, the sharp and bloody way.

And will they all hang with with you, for fellowship,and split death into equal shares like loot?" "I am not caught yet

Go forth now and live, Locke Lamora. Live, uncertain.

Let's start wobbling, shall we? said Locke's knees, but this offer was met by a counterproposal from his better judgement to simply freeze up and do nothing, like a man treading water who sees a tall black fin coming straight at him.

Can't buy in for the last hand if you don't get there in time to take a chair.

That sounds dangerous,'said Jean. 'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.' 'We?' 'We.

Land has its pirates, same as the sea