Stepping Outside Comfort Zone Quotes

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

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 would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

If you do something mechanically for years to come, you tend to think that is life, but put yourself in a totally bizarre location, and you tend to discover so many aspects of yourself and life in general.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

I told everyone I would never be an actor. People used to tell me, 'Hey, you got a good look. You should try.' And I was like, 'Nah. That's not me.' And then, the moment I tried it, I found I loved it more than anything in the world, and that taught me a lesson. That is, just go for it.

It's important to me to keep testing myself in life so that I don't get pigeonholed.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.

I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

I think when you're really passionate about something, and maybe not every person is like this, but I think there's a large group that feels deep inside, I want something different, I want something more, I want to go on my own path. It's being comfortable being uncomfortable. Because to do that, you're going to have to jump outside of the comfort zone and it isn't going to be perfect. It's going to be scary. And to me, that's when great things happen.

Alabama will always be home and have a special place in my heart, but I want my life to be more than just living there. I want to see more of the world and, through that, find out more about myself.

Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.