Jane Campion

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

New Zealander Director

Preet Bharara

We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.

American Public Servant

Paul Rand

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.

American Designer

Bill Bailey

You have to have a thick skin, yes. If you're going to do something as foolhardy as standup, you've got to be able to take it on the chin if someone has a go at you.

English Comedian

Laurie Lee

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

English Poet

Chris Larsen

A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, 'We're going to kill banks. We're going to disrupt everything,' ignores some realities.

American Businessman

David Mitchell

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

English Novelist

Frank Rich

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

American Journalist

Stefan Zweig

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

Austrian Writer

Christoph Waltz

As a motivation in itself, celebrity is foolhardy and stupid.

Austrian Actor

It implies a judgment that the brave act is unwise.

Negative Connotation

Though it's about bravery, 'foolhardy' suggests stupidity, not courage.

Not Complimentary

'Foolhardy' often precedes an action likely to fail or cause harm.

Potential Failure

 scientists who read my blog and and I went to go and visit them and then I got there and they were studying poison dart frogs they said and the guy who's the sort of chief scientist said that he went out and when he was out on the field he could figure out if abroad was poisonous or not by licking it which I thought was the very definition of foolhardy

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 Edith So I recorded that with an intensified video camera that has about the sensitivity of the fully dark-adapted human eye. Which means that really is what you would see if you took a dive in a submersible. But just to try to prove that fact to you, I've brought along some bioluminescent plankton in what is undoubtedly a foolhardy attempt

Edith Widder: The weird...

 contrasted starkly with Celera's strategy called whole genome shotgun sequencing. It hinged on skipping the mapping phase entirely, a faster, though foolhardy, approach according to some. The entire genome was directly chopped up into a giant heap of small, overlapping bits.

The race to sequence the...

 including a large portion of those who could be said to be of the first rank are the ones who map the terrain they scout the frontiers they cut the pathways they raise the buildings along the way some maybe it may have considered me foolhardy but it's been my habit to

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 and less like a wooden coffin slowly choking the life out of us. Now there are a lot of people charting their own sexual paths. But, because as HOLAAfrica -- We do sex and sexuality online -- We would be foolhardy not to mention the digital realm.

How to have a healthier,...

 undoubtedly a foolhardy attempt at a live demonstration so if we get up the lights down and have it as dark in here as possible I have a flask that has bioluminescent plankton in it and you'll note there's no light coming from them

The weird, wonderful...

 with a foolhardy passion to explore the land of wonder I hid strike as young as I was through the length and breadth of my Sabbath naturally mom was against the idea but I talked that into allowing me and off I went

Spotting the camel...

 two bears physically interact like that there's a good chance one of them could be hurt they're very powerful animals I don't know her character well enough yet to decide if she's foolhardy or brave

Most Inspiring Animal...

 said to be of the first rank, are the ones who map the terrain, they scout the frontiers, they cut the pathways, they raise the buildings along the way. Some may have considered me foolhardy,

E.O. Wilson: Advice to...

 while he's guarding so the wise leader holds his ground while foolhardy marimbo does the fighting on his behalf

Foolhardy

Recklessly brave; careless and not thinking about risks and possible results.

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Potential Failure

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