Playing It Safe Quotes - Page 2

• What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added anus of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do.

  Jim Goad

  Imagination, Fleeting, Denial

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• 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

  Mean, People, Challenges

  "Christina Aguilera Finds Her Home". Interview with David Keeps, www.redbookmag.com. October 15, 2013.

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• 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

  Education, Fate, People

  "Are you playing it Safe? What does safety really mean to you?" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2017.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Dumb

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• I watch so many movies and I find a lot of them very predictable, and also, a little bit playing it safe.

  Robert Pattinson

  Watches, Littles, Bits

  Source: collider.com

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• I think you've got to take the risks. There's no point playing it safe, because either you'll get bored or the audiences will get bored. Sometimes, you're going to make mistakes, and that's fine, but you have to take the risks. I think Pirates is one of the prime examples of that with Johnny Depp's performance, and part of the reason that people love it so much is that you watch it and go, "Gutsy, really gutsy!"

  Keira Knightley

  Mistake, Thinking, Bored

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• 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

  Games, Risk, Might

  "Legendary Oceanographer Walter Munk: Reflecting on seventy-six years in oceanography and the future of the planet". Interview with Eliana Alvarez and Leah Goudsmit, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 27, 2015.

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• My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.

  Julie Taymor

  Mother, Brother, Father

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