Quotes About Risk

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

A design that doesn't take change into account risks major redesign in the future.

Wird's besser? Wird's schlimmer?, fragt man alljährlich. Aber seien wir ehrlich, Leben ist immer lebensgefährlich.

You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.' 'Yeah,' I said, re­cov­er­ing the power of speech. 'When I met you.

The bigger we are, the harder we fall. Despite its hazards some keep on raising their narcissistic profile, wishing to be in the picture all the time, everywhere and at any cost. (Low profile)

What about you? You didn't even think twice about following those two. They say, 'Let's go onto the ice' and right away you say, 'Where do I put my paws?' If you ask me, you're the brave one.

Dovepaw made a mess of the hunting, true. But she ran to help a Clanmate in trouble when she had no idea what danger she would have to face on the other side of that bramble thicket. And when we couldn't get Icecloud out of the hole, she was quick to volunteer to be lowered down to help her, even though no cat really knew what might have been down there.

It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger

Well, yes, Dustpaw, launching an attack and knocking me back across the border is one option. But is it wise to take on a cat twice your size?

Yes, anything could happen at any time.

He won't last the winter if we stay here, though," Mousefur

Think you have nine lives...Do you? I saved you once...Dont make me save you again..

Rusty could

What happens if he kills me here? Will I be really dead?

It's better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger.

There's a river for you to catch fish, and for me to fall into!

In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket.

Part of me wanted to run away from him screaming, Fire! A more reckless part was tempted to see how close I could get without... combusting.

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

The reason the Khumbu Icefall concerns you in Base Camp is that it stands between you and the summit. You must go up and down the thing at least five times, spend about twenty hours in it, like an ant trapped in the bottom of an ice machine, if you are to successfully climb Everest.

The operation was a radial keratotomy, in which tiny incisions are made in one's corneas to alter the eyes' focal lengths and (presumably) improve vision. However, unbeknownst to me and to virtually every ophthalmologist in the world, at high altitude a cornea thus altered will both flatten and thicken, shortening your focal length and rendering you effectively blind. That is what happened to me about fifteen hundred feet above High Camp in the early morning hours of May 10, 1996.

There's a joke about a man who tested his blade using his tongue: sharp blades taste like metal; really sharp blades taste like blood.