Quotes About Risk

One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it's professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There's dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Writers and musicians are very similar in that the chances of making a life in either field are so infinitesimal. And once you're in, the chances of staying viable are difficult. But there is something incredibly different about performing in front of a live audience, as opposed to sitting at your desk typing.

When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.

It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Oh, wary, well, I'm wary of the water I drink, it might be poisoned," said Glinda. "That doesn't mean I stop drinking water.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.        Over-the-counter

Come to the edge, he said. We can't, we're afraid! they responded. Come to the edge, he said. We can't, We will fall! they responded. Come to the edge, he said. And so they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Come to the edge, he said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.

Come to the edge,' he said. 'We are afraid,' they said. 'Come to the edge, he said,' and slowly, reluctantly, they came. He pushed them and they flew.

You know where you are? You're in the jungle baby. You're gonna DIE!!!!

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