Quotes About Risk

But human motivation is also a thing of the mind, and fear has never been the strongest emotion. Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress.

Like I keep telling people, the more thinking you do before things get exciting, the less exciting things will be. And they get plenty exciting enough.

pilot might think a 1-percent chance of being shot down on a given mission acceptable, then realize that fifty such missions made it a 40-percent chance.

mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress. The

When you dealt with explosives, you didn't rush and you didn't take chances.

humble rabbit, cornered by a fox, has nothing to lose by striking out, and rabbits have teeth, and sometimes the rabbit gets lucky.

A cop once told me that any burglar who wants to break in will succeed, and the price of the lock determines only how long it might take to do the job.

Being safe is fiction.

one lives as if one "might miss out on something.

You wouldn't think you could get bored falling to your death... But when it's a really, really long drop, there's a definite risk on ennui.

I'm quite comfortable with making the odd mistake, if it comes in the pursuit of new opportunities and new ideas Rob Fyfe, Air New Zealand CEO

That is the surprising, compelling mathematics of innovation: if you want more success, you have to be prepared to shrug off more failure.

one of the scariest snakes in the room is the fear of failure, which manifests itself in such ways as fear of being judged, fear of getting started, fear of the unknown. And while much has been said about fear of failure, it still is the single biggest obstacle people face to creative success.

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Poor little babies are so afraid of pain that they spurn the myriad sweet wonders of life so that they might protect themselves from hurt. How can you respect that sort of weakness, how can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointments can bring?

Are you to be an individual, a trespasser in territory none else has had the wit or nerve to explore, or just another troublesome mosquito to be swatted by the authorities?

There's nothing like the word dangerous to generate interest: it's irresistible to young males, scary to most young females.

The problem here, Gwen, is that the more desperate you are to achieve financial success and the tighter you hold on to what you've got, the greater your chances of losing it. Money's like love in that respect.

to perform without a net is ecstasy. Papa Phom had often reminded her, To perform without focus is fatal.