I feel lucky that I always have a number of films to choose from. I would like to come out of my comfort zone while doing various roles, and I don’t want to keep repeating my characters.
I like to try new things as well as stay in my comfort zone so I think all the styles or looks I do, represent me.
The longer I spent time on ‘The Daily Show,’ standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world – most often from somewhere in the Middle East – the more I began to realize that ‘The Daily Show’ was radicalizing me.
Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance to become the next great visionaries.
I’m doing my sit-ups and watching CNBC. Suddenly, somebody starts talking about me on television… The business has gone into a weird zone of visibility. For those of us who have done it for a long time, it’s strange.
The greatest things in life tend to happen outside our comfort zones, and doubting your ability to step outside of your comfort zone will keep you stuck.
Actors require flexibility, a kind of openness and readiness to leave their comfort zone.
It’s always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it’s easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.
A good working relationship between an actor and the director is very important. It takes a while to build a comfort zone because filmmaking is a long process so it is important to connect with people you work with.
Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.
I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of ‘Twilight Zone.’ I didn’t think about it.
I grew up weird – very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.
It’s always good to go outside of your comfort zone.
I would love to be in a zone concept every once in a while. Probably later on in my career.
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It’s a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.
It doesn’t have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people’s opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women’s opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
I became a singer and a songwriter by learning on the spot, so think I always need to be slightly out of my comfort zone when I do something. I’ve never stopped being experimental because that’s how I started.
Being solid in your own zone, being a good faceoff guy, those are things that are all important as you go deep in the playoffs.
Australia is fun, but completely exhausting and confusing because I never get on with the different time zone.
I needed to get out of Seattle. I had to just come into my own world, my own zone, and really appreciate me and my music.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my mother’s pain. Throughout my childhood, I was constantly trying to protect her from my father.
People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.
I’m always nudging myself into discomfort zones as much as I can.
Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don’t be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn’t work. You’ll end up in the friend zone.
I will never have anything that is remotely technical near my bath time. I completely zone out and stare up at the ceiling. For me, it’s like a form of meditation. It’s a time where I can just actually turn off.
Something happened to me at the precise moment that my grandmother died. She was three time zones away, but that didn’t matter. I believe that I felt something at that moment she passed… some bit of her mortality slipping away.
If you’ve not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that’s when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing.
We’re very interested in seeing what science Exxon has been using for its own purposes because they’re tremendously active in offshore oil drilling in the Arctic, for example, where global warming is happening at a much more rapid rate than in more temperate zones.
When I’m painting and in the zone, it’s difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won’t disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way.
One of my favorite teachers is Osho, mainly because he liked to push people’s buttons just to get them to think and live outside of their comfort zone.
Rick Neuheisel was recruiting me, and he told me something, and I’ll never forget it: he said you make your money in the red zone. If you’re down there, that’s already three points, so don’t turn the ball over. I kind of took that to heart, and I’m always very careful in the red zone.
I have always known I had talent, LOL, but to be called a ‘talent’ feels a little strange – but well within my comfort zone!
As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer.
I like the possibility of failure. I don’t want to be in a comfortable zone.
Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren’t.
I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.
I am moving towards that zone where I don’t want to be a replaceable name. This is my goal. I want to hear from the industry that, ‘You are the only one who can do this. We will not go ahead with the project if you don’t do this.’ And I want to hear from the audience that it is worth watching a film that I have done.
I’d been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
When you come out of your comfort zone, you can express yourself in front of the whole world, and there was no better stage to express yourself as a batsman and as a leader than IPL.
You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.
Take corruption, right? Take political corruption. Europe, the Anglosphere, northern Europe, has been kind of a miracle zone – and I’m not saying there’s no corruption, of course – but in being somehow able to minimize political corruption.
I love pushing myself and I think being in a comfort zone perennially can restrict your growth.
What ‘Twilight Zone’ did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
You go into another time zone when you are a parent of an autistic child, where any micro movement in a positive direction is such a cause for celebration.
You’re dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
You take your shots when you have them, and I threw a lot of touchdowns, but I’m always going to take care of the football in the red zone.
Very few people know someone who would voluntarily go into a war zone to protect a person he has never met. I know 1,000 of them, and I am proud that they are part of our team.
It’s so hard to see one of your friends fall, and it’s a reminder that you have to be on and in the zone.
The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was ‘do it scared.’ And no matter if you’re scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I’m proud to say that I’ve known them for 20 years almost. I’ve written songs with, produced songs with them a lot of times. I don’t deviate form my comfort zone. I feel like when God brings people to you, it’s good to keep ’em around.
I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I’m from.
I didn’t get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
