Quotes About Risk

If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Det är nutidsmänniskans tragik att hon har upphört att våga vara rädd. Det är ödesdigert för därmed följer att hon också successivt tvingas sluta med att tänka.

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to known where the limits are.

You must gamble for your own survival, for once you have survived, you will have become something more than what you were.

This was the true madness of the Strangeling. I realised there was no risk of attack, none at all. Danger here was a radically different concept to any that I was familiar with. It would be very easy to give oneself to the unreality of this place.

You're important, Daniel, you're Shemyaza's vizier. They want you in their clutches, but they won't risk your death.

All the oldsters present were watching Peveral Othman with greedy, inquisitive eyes. He acknowledged each of them with eye contact, knowing that to risk more would prove to be a waste of his energy. Just the slightest touch could set them off, sucking and starving at his soul.

To express ingratitude was to risk taunting fate; we were all afraid of that, aware of the delicacy of our disregard.

I can be your ally, Khaster. You should look beneath the surface." Khaster laughed uneasily. "That's a perilous course in Magrast. Sometimes, you find more than you bargained for." "And that's not always a bad thing.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

Some say that we should stop exploring space, that the cost in human lives is too great. But Columbia's crew would not have wanted that. We are a curious species, always wanting to know what is over the next hill, around the next corner, on the next island. And we have been that way for thousands of years.

Survival, to my mind, implies a finite probability that without luck and cunning, you will perish.

Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

Money brings security, that was the idea. But it turned out to be just the opposite. If you have a great big house, that meant you had to be fearful again: somebody might rob you. If you had a great big store, you had to be fearful now that there's gonna be a riot—and everything in your store would be stolen. See, money brings more fear than security.

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool's procedure . . . buying stock in other people's businesses.

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

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!