Quotes About Risk

Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.

But whenever you think, 'this is an exciting idea' and immediately follow that by thinking, 'this is a very stupid idea' then you know you are on to a good thing and that you will regret it if you wimp out.

But that was good enough for me, because adventure doesn't always have to be about climbing K2. Just getting out there and doing something is sometimes good enough. In fact, you shouldn't even compare your trip with climbing K2. You should compare it with the realistic alternative that faces most people with busy lives and tight diaries, which is doing no adventure at all.

Alastair Humphreys

If you want to do difficult, exciting things on life then you have to carefully but regularly test what you are really able to do. You have to think whether a risk is worth taking, or if it is just silly. And you neet to be brave, trying out things that you previously felt might be too hard. If you do these things often, you'll start to understand that you are capable of more than you ever imagined. You really. We all are.

If you want to do difficult, exciting things in life then you have to carefully but regularly test what you are really able to do. You have to think whether a risk is worth taking, or if it is just silly. And you neet to be brave, trying out things that you previously felt might be too hard. If you do these things often, you'll start to understand that you are capable of more than you ever imagined. You really. We all are.

I now believe there is something even more important than striving for the remarkable. And that is to stop dreaming about an adventure of a lifetime, and instead pursue a lifetime of living adventure through a daily pledge to push myself a little, scare myself now and then and remain curious

If you want to do difficult, exciting things in life then you have to carefully but regularly test what you are really able to do. You have to think whether a risk is worth taking, or if it is just silly. And you neet to be brave, trying out things that you previously felt might be too hard. If you do these things often, you'll start to understand that you are capable of more than you ever imagined. You really are. We all are.

It is always better to try and fail than not to try.

No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

She hesitated, aware that an ill-judged phrase might anger Triumvir Hegazi; not that she particularly cared. Dared she call it the Melding Plague, now that the Yellowstoners had given it a name? Perhaps that would be unwise.

The place is of no concern to them. They've left it to fester. An informational dead zone. The abstraction doesn't penetrate here, by design. The dome rebuffs it. The family craved their privacy, their insularity. My alert was a simple radio frequency trigger, with just enough power to reach beyond the estate. A risk even in that, but one worth taking." "You keep saying them," Dreyfus said. "For a reason," Stasov answered.

Having created these cognitively enhanced creatures, the safest option at the time appeared to be to launch them into interstellar space.

Watch out for pickpockets and gropers now," Adrana said, as if my words counted for nothing. "We'll go all the way along, then come out at Cat Gate.

This is how attrition happens, I thought to myself. You take one chance too many, imagining that all the previous instances of good fortune have somehow immunised you against hazard, when in fact you have simply been extraordinarily fortunate until now.

Oh, come on, Fura." Her eyes were wide with anticipation. I knew she'd had a glass of wine when we came in but there was nothing foggy or reddened about them. "We're a stone's throw from Neural Alley. I've got some quoins. Let's go and live a little.

It's government's role to inform us of risks and let us use personal responsibility to evaluate that risk ourselves.

At its heart, 'Meru' is a personal story.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

This is unproven technology, and if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't interact with tokens - from an investor and security perspective.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.