If you don't risk, you're going "I coulda woulda shoulda." I'd have been rich, I'd have found love, I could have flown in ridge lift along the coastline today, or whatever. But what if you blow it? Then it's "that was really stupid, I'm financially ruined, I've lost my love, I'm lucky to be alive," or whatever.
2006-07-04 09:55:46 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
To take a risk means that you are short of knowledge and not confident enough, just blindly dismissing reasonable doubts. It is not appropriate at all...People, whom you observe to be risky, might well know what they do. You don't, so you call them risky.They do not claim themselves to be risky, unless they for some stupid reason dismiss reasonable doubts.
2006-07-04 10:11:57 · answer #1 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I can only speak from personal experience. I took HUGE risks in life. Some paid off. The risks that I am glad I took are: getting on a stage and telling jokes. Telling someone I loved them. Doing a backward summersault on a traploline.
Take risks. Break a leg.
pete
2006-07-04 17:08:03 · answer #2 · answered by eternity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
2006-07-04 17:00:21 · answer #3 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people will climb up a tree ,walk out on a branch for the thrill of it, not thinking of how sturdy the branch may be, and some people get a ladder, test the branch first. Calculated risk, verses risky.
2006-07-04 20:22:27 · answer #4 · answered by laughsall 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rick taking is the only way to prosper. Most rich people at some point had to take a risk to get that way - other than inheriting the money.
2006-07-04 16:58:33 · answer #5 · answered by ladysodivine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some risks are fun! Others can get you hurt, in a bunch of different ways. So take some, but not too many, if that helps at all!
2006-07-04 17:00:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eagleflyer, risk taking is good, as long as you can accept the consequences. In other words, be sure to assess the situation, pros/cons, then, if you blew it, at least you can tell yourself you did not just "jump" into stupidity!
If safe, do it! Happy 4th and happy risking!
2006-07-04 17:01:51 · answer #7 · answered by vim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think one needs to take Reasonable risks. sometimes you have take risks to get something because that's the only choice you have. sometimes you don't need to take risks. so i think you should take risks in important thing and if you don't have any other choice, go for it. However, be careful on the way and consider all options in everything be4 taking risks.
Don't forget that everyone makes mistakes and learn from them. "Why do we fall? so we can learn to pick ourselves up"
2006-07-04 17:03:22 · answer #8 · answered by gurria_rulz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is risk in everything. You could be crossing the street against a light and not see a car ,then wham
2006-07-04 17:05:50 · answer #9 · answered by mick987g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life = risk
every step u take is a risk in sth
even while walkin in the street
if u dont wanna have a risk
so go and live in heaven
2006-07-04 17:00:24 · answer #10 · answered by ☆♥angel♥☆ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋