Play Safe Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

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

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Don't be ashamed to 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.