John D'Agata Quotes

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

When people are worried about the future, they don't take trips to Hawaii.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

I would be very uncomfortable doing a safe part. It would make me think something is wrong.

I think anytime you go into anything that's different and new, there's a bit of fear.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

There's so much uncertainty within certain players and the organization.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.