Ally Carter Quotes

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

A President in a ... crisis makes, say, 10 bets a day. Maybe I made the wrong choice three times.

The thing I enjoy about going fast is the risk-reward scenario you get. If you make good decisions, the benefits are amazing. If you get it wrong, you can lose so much.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

Before I make an action, think about the consequences. ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.

It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

I believe there are two types of decision-makers - those who lead with their gut and those who make lists of pros and cons, and fully anticipate the consequences.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.

Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.