David Burrett Reid

greatest risks aren’t always what we fear most.

You’re more likely to risk your life going to work than being eaten by a shark, yet shark attacks get much more attention and generate far more fear.

The likelihood of being harmed by these risks is incredibly low, yet we believe they could be imminent.

our beliefs are also shaped by the people around us, our culture or history, and what we read in the media or see on TV.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

– Albert Einstein

Every hour of every day, forty people die from drowning.

you are more likely to be killed by food poisoning or die from falling off a ladder than you are from flying.

which is worse, danger or the fear of danger?