Quotes About Risk

Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

I've been very lucky as far as the things that I've picked, and the way they've worked out. I try to pass on stuff that looks like it's gonna be a bad time.

Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.