Quotes About Risk

Again, there is psychological risk in the robotic moment. Logan's comment about talking with the AIBO to "get thoughts out" suggests using technology to know oneself better. But it also suggests a fantasy in which we cheapen the notion of companionship to a baseline of "interacting with something." We reduce relationship and come to see this reduction as the norm.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Many people are so identified with their shame-and-pain stories that they're scared to shift out of that identity; they would rather remain miserable than take the risk of stepping into a new story. Remember: resistance clings to the familiar at all costs, even if what's familiar is making you miserable.

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

without emboldening people to envisage the unlikely, we increase risk rather than diminish it.

The choice the pioneers faced was stark: succeed or starve.

Given the thin line between success and failure, knowing that what works in one circumstance might be disastrous in another, what do such operations have to teach us? It's certainly not that daring military action is or isn't the better course; it's that daring thinking about one's options is always the better course.

People prefer remembering to imagining. Memory deals with familiar things; imagination deals with the unknown. Imagination can be frightening—it requires risking a departure from the familiar.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

The doctors said it was something called commotio cordis, a direct blow to the heart between beats. It was instant, a fluke, and deadly.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don't try. – Beverley Sills

For example, users with a full hard drive may unwittingly delete configuration files under the mistaken assumption that deleting a boot.ini file must be okay because they don't remember ever using it.

Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.

Go out there and either be the first to fail or fail uniquely.

Entrepreneur-Every New Thought Risked Effortlessly Past Resistance Energizing Numerous Eventually Useful Returns.

Accidents are no longer accidents at all. They are failures of risk management.

In shipping, for example, injury counts were halved over a recent decade, but the number of shipping accidents tripled

Studying and enhancing the "information environment" for decision-making, as Rasmussen and Svedung put it, can be a good place to start.46 This information environment, after all, is where assessments are made, decisions are shaped, in which local rationality is created. It is the place where the social and the technical meet; where risk itself is constructed.

Safety improvements come from organizations monitoring and understanding the gap between proceedures and practice

Safety and risk are made and broken the whole time, throughout your organization. You are not the custodian of an otherwise safe system that you need to protect from erratic human beings.

In complex systems, after all, it is very hard to foresee or predict the consequences of presumed causes. So it is not the consequences that we should be afraid of (we might not even foresee them or believe them if we could). Rather, we should be weary of renaming things that negotiate their perceived risk down from what it was before.