“Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.” WritingFeelingsStuffWorstProduceSafetyDullIntimidated Author:Lucy Prebble
“Even if you're starting from scratch and buying a new wardrobe, preppy clothes are very fairly priced compared to high fashion. They're very easy to absorb into your wardrobe. You probably already have stuff you can wear and there's a safety factor. You're dressed for success, in a way, if you look like you grew up with success.” IfsWayLooksEasyStuffFashionLike YouGrewClothesGrew UpSafetyStartingFactorsBuyingScratchesWardrobeHigh FashionPreppy Author:Lisa Birnbach
“Everyone knows that Jews control the media and banks and stuff. But did you know that when you go to a carnival and you have to be a certain height to go on a ride, Jews control that height? It has nothing to do with safety. It's just us flexing our Semitic muscles.” KnowsCertainStuffMediaGoes OnSafetyJewHeightMusclesDid You KnowCarnivalsFlexing Author:Eugene Mirman
“We live in a fantastically wealthy country. We don't have to worry about food. We don't have to worry about clothing. We don't have to worry about our safety. It's very easy for me to be an environmentalist. It's very easy for me to care about making sure that we protect the forests and the whales, and all that stuff.” CountryCareEasyStuffWorryProtectSafetyForestsWealthyClothingsWhalesEnvironmentalist Author:Ian Bremmer
“Safety was not a big thing when I was growing up. A seat belt was something that got in the way: 'Ma, the seat belt is digging into my back.' 'Stuff it down into the seat. And roll those windows up, you're letting the smoke out'” WayBigsStuffGrowing UpGrowingWindowSafetySmokeSeatsBig ThingsBeltsDiggingSeat Belts Author:Margaret Smith
“There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client to feel safe enough to turn their vision in towards themselves and their experience in the moment and to reveal things that usually carry a lot of shame or that kind of stuff around.” FeelsFirstsKindRealEnoughMomentsJobsTurnsStuffLinesWalksVisionSafeShameSafetyCarefulClientsTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.” IfsWantCultureGrowsStuffTeacherSafetyProfessionAliensAbstractAcademicInner Life Book:The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
“If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.” IfsStuffMistakeDoorsDogSafetyCookingBe GoodFatsMaking MistakesZoneScrapBack DoorsSafety ZonePlaying Outside Author:Guy Fieri