Norma Shearer Quotes

The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable, you see what you're made of and who you are.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.

I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

I'm at my most fulfilled challenging myself with something that scares me.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.