Quotes About Risk

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That's the sound of being alive. It's your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it's all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can't-do-this, and can't-do-that's, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.

Did he dare trust this insane boy?

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

This nation was built by men who took risks — pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.

God told us to go. He didn't promise that we would come back." Butros

How do you keep this place running?" I said. "How did you think it would work in the first place?" She smiled. "I was dumb enough to give it a try.

People used to avoid mountains, but now we seek their company. We come for the pretty sights, but also to find a place still free from those life-saving constraints. We come to the mountain seeking beauty and terror.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

The protective effects of social connection were present even for individuals who were at higher risk for depression as a result of genetic vulnerability or early life trauma.

tendemos a preferir la "certeza de la miseria a la miseria de la incertidumbre".

Poverty of relationship can disrupt normal development, influence how the brain works, put you at risk for physical and mental health problems. It's absolutely not good for you. Oprah: Especially for children.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems

Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and our systems are getting more complex all the time.

we tend to focus on rare and spectacular threats and ignore the more frequent and pedestrian ones. So we fear flying more than driving, even though the former is much safer. Or we fear terrorists more than the police, even though in the US you're nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

For many organizations, security comes down to basic economics. If the cost of security is less than the likely cost of losses due to lack of security, security wins. If the cost of security is more than the likely cost of losses, accept the losses.

we fear terrorists more than the police, even though in the US you're nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

Or we fear terrorists more than the police, even though in the US you're nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.