Quotes About Risk

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

Have you ever considered that there isn't a safe time to be around you?

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO!

From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

But when's the last time you took a chance? Or didn't do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn't have?

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

In a fight, you got to know that there's a strong chance you're going to get hurt. But at the same time, you know, most of the injuries you sustain in fighting are not career-ending injuries.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.