Play Safe Quotes:

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

- Christian Bale

topic: Playing It Safe, Want, Play Safe

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Play, Play Safe, Safe

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Play, Safety, Insecurity, Playing It Safe, Insecurity And Fear

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

- Dave Brubeck

source: FaceBook post by Dave Brubeck from Aug 14, 2012

topic: Music, Mistake, Order, Play Safe

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

- Robert Collier

source: Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

topic: Have Faith, World, Safe, Play Safe, Power Of Visualization

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,

- Elliott Smith

topic: Safe, Way, Failing, Playing It Safe, Play Safe

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

topic: Play, Risk, Safe, Play Safe

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

- Shirley Hufstedler

topic: Life, Play, Safe, Playing It Safe, Play Safe

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

- Woody Allen

topic: Safe, Failing, Playing It Safe, Play Safe

The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

- Mike Nichols

topic: Essence, Play, Differences, Play Safe

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.

- Phil Mickelson

topic: Winning, Play, Trying, Play Safe

Don't play safe. Cook outside of your comfort zone, otherwise you're just going to do the same things.

- Tom Aikens

topic: Play, Comfort, Safe, Play Safe

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Strong Opinions”, p.155, Penguin UK

topic: Art, Play, Safety, Play Safe

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

topic: Sex, Character, Play, World Aids Day, Play Safe

Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one. He chips and putts equally well. And will probably have a better knowledge of the course. So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him victory? Experience. He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which makes him more cautious. The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution. That is his edge. It is the same with all of us. Knowledge makes us play safe. The secret is to stay childish.

- Paul Arden

topic: Winning, Player, Secret, Play Safe, Young Ones

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

topic: Golf, Games, Play, Play Safe

The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation.

- Irving Thalberg

topic: Past, Play, Path, Play Safe, Trailblazers