Play It Safe Quotes

#1. Few people achieve greatness. One reason is that the opportunity, for the vast majority of us, never even shows up. Another is that if it does, it will inevitably look like a long shot. And the temptation invariably is to play it safe.

Jack McDevitt

#2. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Lupita Nyong'o

#3. The thing is that people only get hurt - really hurt - when they're trying to play it safe. That's when people get injured, when they pull back at the last second because they're scared. They hurt themselves and other people.

Morgan Matson

#4. If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

Michael Douglas

#5. If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.

Rachel Roy

#6. Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

Peter Farrelly

#7. Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but "safe" isn't one of them.

Mandy Hale

#8. We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

Gail Sheehy

#9. I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.

Iris Apfel

#10. Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

Paul Arden

#11. You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can't play it safe.

Dan Alatorre

#12. I've been involved in lots of GAMES OF THE HEART, gorgeous. Rolled the dice time and again, took a lot of risks, took a lot of falls. Finally seems I'm winning. I'm not about to play it safe now.

Kristen Ashley

#13. The most extravagant sinners of Jesus's day receive His most compassionate welcome. Grace is a divine vulgarity that stands caution on its head. It refuses to play it safe and lay it up. Grace is recklessly generous, uncomfortably promiscuous.

Preston Sprinkle

#14. I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

Hilary Swank

#15. When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

Matt Prokop

#16. You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

M. Night Shyamalan

#17. You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and you'll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?

J.M. Darhower

#18. The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same.

Patti Digh

#19. Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.

Jack McDevitt

#20. If you play it safe, middle of the road with all the right notes, you might win. If you are unique and have too much personality, you might easily score a '0' in competition.

Charlie Albright

#21. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

James Badge Dale

#22. The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

Paul Westerberg

#23. When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

Will Ferrell

#24. Life's too short to play it safe sometimes. (If he feels something special about Emma, he should go for it.)

Chris Coppernoll

#25. My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

Sophia Loren

#26. If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.

Jason Mraz

#27. At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.

Frederick Lenz

#28. Let's play it safe. I'm not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm that interested in, in the comedy world. Everyone seems to be trying to play it safe.

Tim Heidecker

#30. The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more
if only they were willing to take a few risks.

George Foreman

#31. Begin to realize that the safest thing you can do feels risky and the riskiest thing you can do is play it safe.

Seth Godin

#32. Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Henry Rollins

#33. The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

Casey Neistat

#34. A wild appreciation of men and women ... who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance ... The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.

Jessa Crispin

#35. While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

Kelsey Grammer

#36. Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

Alfie Kohn

#37. It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.

Sean Malto

#38. Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.

Brad Goreski

#39. I'm starting to realize that she's my only real friend in the world right now. I can't lose that. I've tried so hard to play it safe with her, and I thought I was doing okay until I went all wounded warrior on her and ... fuck.

Heather Demetrios

#40. If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Shirley M Hufstedler

#41. As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I've learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.

Mark Batterson

#42. Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

Bob Goff

#43. I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

Sophia Amoruso

#44. You play it safe and all you end up with is a lifetime of should-have-beens.

Vivi Andrews

#45. If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

Brit Marling

#46. Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living.

Dan B. Allender

#47. I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script ... but not often. Play it safe: write well.

Jerry Juhl

#48. Individuals who continually play it safe in life, taking the path of least resistance and risk, deny themselves rich opportunities for personal growth.
Some

Adele Von Rust McCormick

#49. I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

Cybill Shepherd

#50. It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon.

Dick Vermeil

#51. I'm glad that when I was on the sidewalk on the square in town with you and Casey all those years ago, I decided for the first time in my life not to play it safe."
"I'm glad too, Ivey, seriously fuckin' glad you took a chance on me.

Kristen Ashley

#52. If you want to play it safe all the time, go join an insurance company.

Andy Weir

#53. But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.

Gregory Chaitin

#54. After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

#55. Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Alva Noe

#56. I will not play it safe!
I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life.
I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.

Steve Maraboli

#57. You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

Irene Rosenfeld

#58. Some are born to play it safe
Others are born to live it wild.

Nikki Rowe

#59. Can't play it safe when nowhere safe anymore

Marlon James

#60. In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Jonathan Sacks

#61. The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.

Benjamin Hoff

#62. I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Donny Osmond

#63. Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity,
You play it safe every time ...

Cyndi Lauper

#64. There are times in life to play it safe. I'm sure you can think of several. Music is not one of them.

Deke Sharon

#65. Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

Howard Schultz

#66. When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

Seth Godin

#67. Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.

Francis Chan

#68. These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness and chasing some crazy dream, all they want to do is narrow their options and do something safe.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#69. If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.

Kerry King

#70. When you think about it finding the perfect partner is a bit like a game of pontoon. I mean, you get your cards and you make your decision, do you stick or twist? do you play safe and settle for 19 or do you go all out for 21 even if you might end up bust?

Mike Gayle

#71. My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Harvey Fierstein

#72. I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

Bobby Jones

#73. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#74. I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

Rick Danko

#75. When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Barbara Sher

#76. It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me, that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game.

Harlan Ellison

#77. I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Ernie Pyle

#78. Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid

Kelly Clarkson

#79. In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.

Julia Cameron

#80. It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity

Dag Hammarskjold

#81. I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side.

Zendaya

#82. It was safe to assume he'd not only read the play but then re-read it, cross-referenced the annotations, and probably joined an online chat group called Buds of the Bard or something equally nerdy

Simon Holt

#83. Can't we all just play nicely and leave the playground the way we found it, clean and safe?

Amber Valletta

#84. Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.

Thomas Szasz

#85. The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.

Michelle Rodriguez

#86. I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

Kanye West

#87. Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process.

Henri De Lubac

#88. You should never play safe with your heart. It doesn't get to grow if you don't take it out. You break it. You give it away. And sometimes, you kind of hope someone gives it back to you - maybe wrapped up and taped but better because they held it for a little while.

Rhys Ford

#89. You know how I play it, better safe than sorry 'stead of searching for substance at every single party.

Drake

#90. Enter my lair, said the dragon. I have shiny treasure for you to play with, I'll keep you warm and safe, and if it suits my purpose, I'll chain you to the floor and kill your client by throwing quarters at him with my magic. Been there, done that.

Ilona Andrews

#91. In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

Camryn Manheim