Quotes About Risk

Self-confidence is the result of taking risks

Still, agreeing to an adventure and getting involved with Lou were two entirely different things. He only hoped that she understood

There are times when certain cards sit unclaimed in the common pile, when certain properties become available that will never be available again. A good businessman feels these moments like a fall in the barometric pressure. A great businessman is dumb enough to act on them even when he cannot afford to.

But a man focused on the near horizon of cost can lose sight of the far horizon of potential windfall. -p139

back to the hollow in the middle of the field. As he waited, Hazel realized more fully than ever how dangerous was their position, without holes, wandering in country they did not know.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.

You find what you love and you learn everything about it. You bet your life on what you know and run from safety, off your mountain into the air, trusting the Principle of Flight to bring you soaring up on lift you cannot see with your eyes.

Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

You find what you love and you learn everything about it. You bet your life on what you know and you run from safety, off your mountain into the air, trusting the Principle of Flight to bring you soaring up on lift you cannot see with your eyes.

Desde cuándo la seguridad ha sido tu ambición, Dickie? Huir de lo seguro: esa es la única manera de lograr que tu última palabra sea «¡Sí!»

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

No soy más Mesías que vosotros. El río se complace en alcanzarnos, con la condición de que nos atrevamos a soltarnos. Nuestra verdadera terea es éste viaje, ésta aventura.

Gerçek bir maceraya at?lmay? seçme ölçütü ÅŸu görüÅŸtür: Geriye dönüp bakt???n?zda bu cesareti gösterdiÄŸiniz için mi, yoksa göstermediÄŸiniz için mi memnun olacaks?n?z?

Ich hatte Angst«, sagte er. »Leute, die keine haben, sterben jung«

A Threat to Humanity

The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).

agree with Nietzsche that 'The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously.' A joyful life is an active life – it is not a dull static state of so-called happiness. Full of the burning fire of enthusiasm, anarchic, revolutionary, energetic, daemonic, Dionysian, filled to overflowing with the terrific urge to create – such is the life of the man who risks safety and happiness for the sake of growth and happiness.

Religion can endanger the life of the pious individual, as well as the lives of others.

The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal. Simulation is both safer and faster.

Would gladly trade a limb to live my life free from fear!

Reporters go through four stages in a war zone. In the first stage, you're Superman, invincible. In the second, you're aware that things are dangerous and you need to be careful. In the third, you conclude that math and probability are working against you. In the fourth, you know you're going to die because you've played the game too long. I was drifting into stage three.

When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for news, dropping into places to see what was up. Well, I could go to parts of Libya today and find lots of good stories, but I probably wouldn't be around to tell them.

He felt the withering of something, the way risk was increasingly eliminated, replaced with a bland new world where the viewing of food preparation would be felt to be more than the reading of poetry; where excitement would come from paying for a soup made out of foraged grass. He had eaten soup made out of foraged grass in the camps; he preferred food.