Quotes About Risk

I've always been a risk taker. When I told my mum I was quitting my job to be a bobsledder, she wasn't surprised.

On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises.

I want to do something very surprising next. I don't know what that is - something that has a high degree of risk.

It's rare to find these true coin flip situations in Hold'em but surprisingly common in Omaha. That's one of the reasons why Omaha is the perfect game for action junkies who relish the notion of flipping coins for large sums of money.

It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.

Don't be a hero, young man. There's no percentage in it.

I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whiskey, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and of Eddie Mars and his pals. I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.

In Hollywood anything can happen, anything at all.

That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.

when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, and to plenty of people in any business or no business at all these days, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.

Trouble is my business," I said. "Twenty-five a day and guarantee of two-fifty, if I pull the job.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who

Good," said Creed. "I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random.

Remember, never rely on one plan, Tal. Always have two or more in place when you undertake something perilous. If the first one fails, go to the second plan. If the second plan fails, go to the third." "If the third plan fails, Your Grace?" Kaspar laughed. "Then run like hell if you're still alive.

The thought struck Dennis that a hundred years before he was even born Tinuva undoubtedly knew of the river. Again he realized just how ancient the elven race was and with it came the recognition of just how much they risked when facing battle: it wasn't just a score of years in the balance, it was a score of decades.

Fear holds us and binds us and keeps us from growing, Nicholas." Pug's voice took on an insistent quality. "It kills a small piece of us each day. It holds us to what we know and keeps us from what's possible, and it is our worst enemy. Fear doesn't announce itself; it's disguised, and it's subtle. It's choosing the safe course; most of us feel we have 'rational' reasons to avoid taking risks.

for to change anything in your past would risk turning you into less than you are now.

He could not challenge him on that and besides, what he said was truth, which at this moment was dangerous.

The most astonishing thing about Jimmy's rise was not his age, for the Mockers were of the opinion that as soon as a boy was ready to try thieving, he should be turned loose. Failure had its own rewards. A poor thief was quickly a dead thief. As long as another Mocker was not put at risk, there was little loss in the death of a thief of limited talents. No, the most astonishing fact of Jimmy's rapid rise was that he was nearly as good as he thought he was.

To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.