Josh Pais Quotes

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.

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

Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive. And I've had lots of strolls on the beach in my life, so I'd like to do a skydive.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

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

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. After 40 years old, if you don't do some things that really terrify you, I don't think they're worth doing.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

If I'm not completely daunted, I'm not interested.

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

Part of the criteria for doing a project is that it's scary or challenging because at some point you go, 'It's too scary; it's too challenging. I don't want to do it.' But things that seem easy are never any fun.

In 2012, I promised myself I'd do something each month I'd never done before. So I skydived. I did trapeze lessons. I rode a motorcycle... All stuff that I'd never done.

Without risk you can't experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

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.

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.

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

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.