Stretching Limits Quotes

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

Most people don't get the chance to do whatever their dream in life was. I have ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do and it has been more enjoyable, challenging, stretching and fulfilling than I would have dared to imagine.

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.

I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.

The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

I like to stretch myself, and playing a dance-hall hostess is quite a stretch, but I feel comfortable with it.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

The idea of doing something that I've never done before, that presents a new challenge, that forces me to stretch in some way - that's kind of a perfect project for me, and especially something that has greater social, conversational ramifications. I mean what more could you want?

Basically, I try to look at everything I do as a stretch.

Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.

I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves.

I always think people who stretch themselves are interesting. That's something to admire, isn't it?

When someone tells me I would be perfect for a certain role, I know that it's within my comfort zone. And there's hardly any fun there.

A good role is something that will stretch your abilities and make you go beyond your levels.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I can't spread myself too thin.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

When I'm working, I try to be serious and rest where I can. I just mark in rehearsals. I still train. I warm up. And I still take lessons from this unbelievable teacher in New York, Joan Lader. I try to be stretched and ready to go.