Play Safe Quotes

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Play, Safety, Insecurity

  "Servant of Peace : A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1962.

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• 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

  Music, Mistake, Order

  FaceBook post by Dave Brubeck from Aug 14, 2012

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

  Robert Collier

  Risk, World, Safe

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

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• Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

  Elliott Smith

  Fear, Failure, Risk

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• 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

  Time, Play, Design

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.47, Dell

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

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Inspirational, Life, Play

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

  Woody Allen

  Safety, Risk, Playing It Safe

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

  Christian Bale

  Playing It Safe, Want, Feels

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• 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

  Essence, Play, Differences

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

  Phil Mickelson

  Winning, Play, Trying

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• Don't be ashamed to play safe.

  Arnold Palmer

  Play, Safe, Ashamed

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

  Tom Aikens

  Play, Comfort, Safe

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• 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

  Art, Play, Safety

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

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• 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

  Sex, Character, Play

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• 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

  Winning, Player, Victory

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• 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

  Golf, Play, Games

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• 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

  Past, Play, Path

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