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

  Elliott Smith

  Fear, Failure, Risk

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• Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Safe

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Eternal Youth of Sophia Loren". www.theuppers.com. May 01, 2017.

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• Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

  Reid Hoffman

  World, Safe, Can Do

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• Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Clever, Motivation, Safety

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• 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

  Safety, Perfect, May

  Joyce Meyer (2007). “New Day, New You: 365 Devotions for Enjoying Everyday Life”, p.361, Hachette UK

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• Luke warm 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

  Sacrifice, People, Focus

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.78, David C Cook

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• Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

  Jordan Belfort

  Business, Risk, Poverty

  Twitter post from Apr 12, 2013

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• Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

  Zainab Salbi

  Inspirational, Change, Risk

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• 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

  Pleasing Others, Firsts, May

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library

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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, Play Safe

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

  Christian Bale

  Want, Play Safe, Feels

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• 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

  Giving Up, Broken, World

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• If you just want a comfortable life, the awards, and pats on the back then you play Christian Hip Hop safe. Because playing it safe will give you consistency, but if you're really in this to see peoples lives transform then you're gonna have to do some risk assessment - it is costly to rally try to impact people.

  LeCrae

  Christian, Impact, Awards

  Source: thegospelguru.com

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• If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Games, Risk, Trying

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• Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.

  Bill Burr

  Dream, Kings, Jobs

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• 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

  Opposites, Risk, Today

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 09, 2011

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• If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise - ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.
  Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  People, Marketing, Criticism

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• 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 Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Giving Up

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.45, Robert Kiyosaki

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• I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.

  Rod Serling

  Tired, Mean, Thinking

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• The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe The latter would probably be a reasonable way of life for seventy or eighty years if you had a contract to live for a thousand years. However, since you know that is out of the question, you must admit, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. Those who play it safe are generally not too exciting, in fact they would probably border on being very boring personalities. 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

  Years, Opposites, Play

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jul 06, 2012

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• I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

  John Burdett

  Thinking, Average, Paris

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• I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

  Robin Thicke

  Careers, Gentleman, Controversial

  "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

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