Quotes About Risk

Follow your heart, and you perish.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

Poetry is a mug's game.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

Life is a perilous voyage.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life- and if we fall, our government stands ready with Band-Aids of every size.

Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.