Byron Katie Quotes

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.

I'm not a risktaker. I'm the total opposite.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

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

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

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.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

If you want to avoid all risks, soon you will have no risks to worry about.

Anything can be justified by security.

The only people who aren’t criticized are those who do nothing, and I would hate to see the agency [CIA] get in that state.

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

When something bad happens, you're bound to be doubly careful.

Life's too short to be super conservative but it's also too short to make it any shorter. I don't plan on dying early, but at the same time I don't plan on playing it so safe that I'll live to ninety.

You would not get out of bed in the morning if you were constantly worrying about the possibility of something happening to you on your way to work. But it is still something to pay attention to, I think.

I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp.

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

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.