stepping out of comfort zone quotes

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

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

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

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

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.