Damon Lindelof Quotes

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

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

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

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

Moral hazard is something I don't take lightly.

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

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

You cannot take all the chances you get.