John Darnielle Quotes

It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's not even that you feel that you're gonna do a good job, it's that you feel like you've found it. It fits, it's natural; it's like putting on a good shoe or something.

As long as you're being honest and there's intention in what you're doing, then I think that energy permeates your field and becomes like a homing signal for other people with like energies.

A lot of times, you land in a city, and you're like, 'This is not my people.' I'm gonna do the show, but you don't feel like this is for you. And then, some places, you just go and just fall into a groove, and you're like, 'This feels right.'

Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling.

In this world, everything has a pulse or a vibration. This sound is unique to each living or non-living thing and in itself creates a music that no-one can hear. I believe that this has a very powerful resonance with, and a deep effect on, our lives.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

It's scary to take risks and it's scary to get out of your comfort zone, but it's also the most rewarding when you do.

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

Getting out of your comfort zone, creating an adventure is really good.

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.

During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

You have to [go outside your comfort zone]. Andy Warhol said 'say yes to everything'.

I am attracted to the diversity of different characters. I like doing things that test the boundaries of character and genres, outside the comfort zone.

Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

Here's an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life: CZ = WZ. It means your "comfort zone" equals your "wealth zone." By expanding your comfort zone, you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone.

If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills.

I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.