Quotes About Risk

I was gazing underwater at the brightly colored landscape that had been hidden from view, forgetting to be afraid that my equipment might fail, that against all evidence I would sink to the bottom and die a watery death, even that I was afraid at all.

Live boldly

writing is perilous, as you can't always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

Even thinking about heading up there again made my heart thump harder; it took nothing for me to recall that sense of the world disappearing from beneath me, like a rug pulled from under my feet.

You never know what will happen, when you fall from a great height.

one eye trying to assess the risk of being murdered in my bed.

He worked for a securities firm, talking to money managers and hedge funds about how best to manage risk. He specialized, he said, in corporate equity and debt.

There was no choice, I decided. We had to let the police know. It was better to be thought stupid and overly dramatic than to risk something actually happening to her.

You have to take your chances when you can.

Das ist das Leben. Wir wissen nicht, was passieren wird. Und deswegen müssen wir unsere Chancen wahrnehmen, solange wir es können.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

The Grum's Ledger is a tale of regret. In real life, there was no happy ending. Alexander Grum died alone because he was afraid to seize love and risk and all the unknowns that go with it. He chose certainty- and it was his ruin.

In my experience, it's not the people who drive fast that are the problem. It's the ones who drive as if they're terrified of every little thing in front of them. Indecision and cowardice kill more often than not.

Great ideas can't be tested. Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

the design process is one that must accept innovation risk. Innovation risk is the chance that a new product, system, or service may fail. The larger the risk, the larger the reward. Similarly, the larger the innovation risk, the deeper the repercussions of failure.

When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.

How to live? To fall, to fall, with eyes closed, to fall into every occasion, into everything.

Through the appropriation of public spaces and resources into the logic of the marketplace, individuals are dispossessed of many collective forms of mutual support or sharing. A simple and pervasive cooperative practice like hitchhiking had to be inverted into a risk-filled act with fearful, even lethal consequences. Now it has reached the point of laws being enacted in parts of the United States that criminalize giving food to the homeless or to undocumented immigrants.

Eventually, Martin persuaded Clay to fly. "But then he went to an army supply store and bought a parachute and actually wore it on the plane

The risks in antiques fraud are relative. Other criminals risk the absolute. You've never heard of a fraudster involved in a shoot-out, of the "Come and get me, copper!" sort. Or of some con artist needing helicopter gunships to bring him. No, we subtle-mongers do it with the smile, the promise, the hint. And we have one great ally: greed. And make no mistake. Greed is everywhere, like weather.

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.