Quotes About Risk

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.

If I have the chance to time travel, might as well go all out.

I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you.

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

We are all on the same tree on big and large, different levels and how far you go above as more you have to see, one wrong move you fall..., most cases you face the dead.