Joshua Ferris Quotes

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

You have to decide if you want something stable and safe or if you want to take a risk and go outside the formula and try something new. That's everything that dance embodies.

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

I like moving, challenging myself.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you WILL get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been.

When we stop taking risks, we stop living.

I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine — and before we know it our lives are gone.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

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

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

I want to take chances. I want to kind of step out of my comfort zone, whatever that may be.