Quotes About Risk

You can get fired from any job at any time.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

Time is like a raging bull … if you dare to hold it from the horns, you can ride it forever, but if in case you do not dare, you will be trailing behind holding from its tail.

The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

When you draw a line in the sand, be careful it is not low tide.

If I believe in the wish, I must believe I can lose it.

I have plenty of time... if I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.

I just hope we don't cause a major paradox.

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.

Life is fraught with risks," she said. "All we can do to guard against them is make considered choices. Or we can make no choices at all and remain static in life. Even that is not really possible or without danger, though. Life changes about us and for us whether we wish it or not.

No good can come of it, you know. He will only break your heart.

She did not have the willpower to send him through that door, knowing that he might never come through it again, or through any of the doors into her life.

If she were not very careful, she would fall in love with him. And would not that be a shocking thing?