Risky Decisions Quotes

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

Philly ain't a good environment for you when you headed in a different direction. Bad things happen left and right. You might walk up the street, make a wrong turn, and your whole life could flip.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

Life is lived on a slippery slope. You are constantly making judgements.

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does.

I do wonder whether the bigger the game is, the more the risks that David Luiz decides to take.

Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

If you look at my career, I've taken on a lot of risky roles.

Self delusion is not a good basis for making important policy.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there's a voice in you that says, 'I don't know, that's risky,' or 'That's challenging,' then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it's bad, it's bad. You're gonna get over it.

Sometimes when you've only got a few snaps, guys try to do too much and try to make too much happen.

As I followed him along the sharp black stones, I could hear Link's voice in my head. "Bad move, man. He's gonna kill you, stuff you, and add you to his collection of idiots who followed him back to his creepy cave