Quotes About Risk

that's the problem with paradise—nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear,' Constance went on, 'but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear. But if there is no fear, how is there a challenge? Often that is when I've done my best work, because I have embraced the fear and challenged myself.

Josh corre riesgos; es más valiente que yo. Siempre va un paso más allá aunque sabe que no debería. Pero lo hace igualmente y aprende. Pienso que los adultos tenemos mucho que aprender de eso. Quizá no deberíamos ser tan miedosos y sensatos cuando se trata de alcanzar nuestras metas.

Well, that's the problem with paradise. Nothing attracts a serpent quite like it. 

Josh takes chances; he's braver than I am. He always takes that extra step when he nos he shouldn't. He does it anyway and he learns. I think we adults have a lot to learn from that. Perhaps to not be so afraid and oversensible about reaching for goals.

What do you say to taking chances?

When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble.

Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. RAINER MARIA RILKE

He should be careful of the influence of those with whom he consorts, and he runs a great risk in becoming a member of a large society, for large bodies tend toward the leveling of individuality to a common consent, the forming and adherence to a creed.

If there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it's when we're closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we'll tread through any flame.

If you give the average teenager a choice to go to the Amazon to build a mud hut for the poor while fighting off hungry pythons or going to their school cafeteria and dropping the "J Bomb" on a group of their friends, most teenagers would pick the pythons. Why? Because the average teenager would rather risk getting choked by a giant snake than getting choked out of their social circle!

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

Don't go looking for trouble; it's already looking for you.

May I search it? she asked. We screen for weapons. I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. Of course not. I have no weapons.

Los muertos enterrados no me daban miedo. Los vivos y los no muertos eran mucho más peligrosos.

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge right down the beaten path.

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.

There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

I love a match like Money in the Bank; I love a hardcore match, and that's what the Money in the Bank ladder matches are. Throw the rule book out and let out your imagination.

I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I've just learned to own it though.

It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.