Top 54 Quotes About Playing It Safe
#1. 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
#2. Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.
Tim Schafer
#3. What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?
Mark Batterson
#5. every 'no' is one step closer to a 'yes'. And I know that greatness was never achieved by playing it safe.
Linda Steinberg
#6. If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.
John C. Maxwell
#7. Monochrome contentment or technicolor roller-coaster? No contest, is it?
Catherine Sanderson
#8. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.
Saurabh Sharma
#9. If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
Woody Allen
#10. Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty
Jordan Belfort
#11. I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.
Robin Thicke
#12. Take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are -Josh
Stephanie Perkins
#15. There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
E. M. Forster
#16. In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
Jonathan Evison
#17. Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world
Stone Cold Steve Austin
#19. To failure. Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations - which covers pretty much all of life.
Tara Brach
#20. Take some risks. Stop playing it so safe.
John Green
#22. I win by taking risks. By standing out. Mom hates how I ride Tucker right past the judge as many times as possible in a class. She says it's showboating and it's tacky. Some judges don't like it. Long ago, though, I decided I'd rather win being me than lose by playing it safe.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#24. More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.
Walter Munk
#25. People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.
Josh Homme
#26. I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans.
Jill Shalvis
#27. Playing it safe is the most popular way to fail.
Elliot Smith
#28. I am such a girly girl, and I love not playing it safe. I'm so new to this world, so it's fun to establish myself as a fashionista.
Kelsea Ballerini
#29. Do not be afraid to try something new. The cost of playing it safe all the time could far exceed the cost of daring to change.
Linda El Awar
#30. We rarely hear warnings about playing it safe. We don't see headlines that say, ... Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.
Doug Sundheim
#31. The people who are playing it totally safe are never going to have either the fun or the reward of the people who decide to take some risk, stick out, do it differently.
John F. Akers
#32. Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.
Beyonce Knowles
#33. If you're the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you're that kind of person, you'll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#34. Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
Zainab Salbi
#35. Playing it safe and tiptoeing through life is exhausting. Keeping all of your gifts trapped inside tires the crap out of you. It takes the same amount of effort to create something extraordinary as it takes to create something ordinary.
Lysa Mateu
#36. If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
Catherine Deneuve
#37. The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.
Bob Proctor
#38. Stop playing it safe. Start playing it big just like the big boys.
Timi Nadela
#39. If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe.
Woody Allen
#40. 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
#41. I'm just playing it safe. I'm staying as far away from the edge as possible, so I don't go plummeting off with a guy who may not even stick around long enough to help peel me off the ground.
Tracy Lane
#42. No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.
Harry Gray
#43. Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#44. There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'
Emmy Rossum
#45. So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life ...
Joyce Meyer
#46. Life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.
Ellen Hopkins
#47. Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.
Shakti Gawain
#48. The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.
Christina Aguilera
#49. Lukewarm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.
Francis Chan
#50. Sometimes playing it safe can be just as bad as taking risks.
Jana Deleon
#51. There is no playing safe with me any longer. I only take huge risks. I know this means I can lose big time, but so long as there is a chance that I will win big time, I will take it
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#52. When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim Carrey
#53. The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same.
Patti Digh
#54. 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
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