Quotes About Risk

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Lost dollars are simply harder to replace than gained dollars are to lose.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

Stay stupid. Trust the soup. Start before you're ready.

Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful; honor and recognition in case of success.

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur's indispensable allies.

And they knew that when battle came, he would take his place not safely in the rear, but in the front rank, at the hottest and most perilous spot on the field.

What factors make you decide to take a particular role? The actor always answers: Because I'm afraid of it.

A child has no trouble believing the unvelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

Crazy,' says Paddy Mayne, 'is our business.

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

My father used to say that attacking an enemy who outnumbers you is like wrestling with a bear: You have to get your dagger into his heart before the beast crushes you with his paws.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket. The

Climate is so full of surprises, it might even surprise us with a hidden stability. Counting on that, though, would be like playing Russian roulette with all the chambers loaded but one.

I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories - stories that I'll never know if she wrote or only imagined writing. She'd wanted me to tell her a secret from my dreams, a secret from my dreams I hadn't had as yet, and so I didn't quite understand what she was after. It's about feeling, Camille had insisted. I didn't understand then that she was talking about risk.

But with a casino, people show up and happily plunk their money down to buy nothing. Money for nothing. That's the best business in the world.

A thousand times a coward and not once a dead man

People get careless when they're feeling safe.

It's fun to horse around with danger.

As usual, when confronted with heights, my greatest fear was the irresistible urge to fling myself off.

Sociologist James House of the University of Michigan declares that emotional isolation is a more dangerous health risk than smoking or high blood pressure, and we now warn everyone about these two! Perhaps these findings reflect the time-honored saying "Suffering is a given; suffering alone is intolerable.