Quotes About Risk

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don't want to write anything but takes.

Menos mal que ni vos ni yo somos cursis, porque de aquí salía uno muerto y el otro con las esposas puestas.

Les gustaba desafiar el peligro de no encontrarse.

Todo esto lo hacía Raúl como si estuviera ausente, como si fuera una imagen en un espejo. Pero tenía otra Vez en la cara la expresión burlonamente decidida del que no vacila en arriesgarse a un juego que en el fondo le importa poco." (Cortázar, Los Prémios, XL)

La técnica consistía en citarse vagamente en un barrio a cierta hora. Les gustaba desafiar el peligro de no encontrarse, de pasar el día solos, enfurruñados en un café o en un banco de plaza, leyendo-un-libro-más.

Wer als Kleiner raucht, kriegt als Großer Tuberkulose.

Por qué decís: peligros metafísicos? También hay ríos metafísicos Horacio, vos te vas a tirar a uno de esos ríos.

il faut tenter de vivre.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.

You can't find intimacy—you can't find home—when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either.

Today, you're more likely to drown in a swimming pool than die a violent death. That's a luxury no one outside this generation has ever known.1

She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn't.

Courage is easy, when the alternative is getting killed.

From small mistakes come great catastrophes;

You are Entering the Red Zone. Proceed at Own Risk. When in Doubt Run.

suspending her body out over the ditch like a piano swinging from a crane.

It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.

As the buck darted below the drop-off, she raised her blade and launched herself into the air.

Sorry, we made vampires, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Was there ever an undertaking of more merit, of more hazard and more enterprising," he is supposed to have written soon after the collapse of his Pacific Fur Company

The Doctor's plan, such as it was, was to escape from Barinska without being shot.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.