Masashi Kishimoto Quotes

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500 years, which scientific risks have not been pursued. It raises the question of who has decided what scientific risks were worth taking, and what have been the consequences in terms of the power structures of the world.

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

Some things are more important than safety.

A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

If we wait for the danger to become clear, it could be too late.

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Life entails risk, and you have to draw some lines.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.