In college you could say ‘Coach, let’s go to zone,’ when you’re tired.
I love having the ball with two minutes left, down a touchdown. That’s when I’m right in the zone… I’m a Catholic and a quarterback. Those are the two things that really shape my life. I’d much rather be the underdog than the favorite any day of the week.
Sometimes comfort zones are the best. Sometimes discomfort is just what the doctor ordered.
In Opportunity Zones, as they are called, investors will receive huge tax breaks for building office parks, warehouses, housing, grocery stores, and the like, helping to ease poverty and end blight in distressed communities.
I grew up in Carol City, Zone 3, for 19 years, in a house with four brothers, a mother and a father.
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
My bedroom is my favorite chill out zone, where after a hectic day, I sign off to land in my dreams.
The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system… and, also, the definition of ‘habitable zone’ has expanded. In our system, it used to be that only Mars and Earth were potentially habitable. Now we’ve got an ocean on Europa… Titan.
I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they’re going to dislike people because they’re not liking themselves in a situation.
I read a lot when I was quite young and have been through phases when I have read less but it helps me stay in the zone when there is so much going on.
With me, I record so much that I just get in the zone.
For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house – they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can’t really share that magic.
The advice I give, no matter male or female, is not being afraid to step outside your comfort zone and think more long-term about your career than maybe the next year.
We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.
We now know that gun-free zones, though well intentioned, do not prevent attacks.
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
We call it ‘demo therapy.’ We’re therapists on top of designers and contractors and real estate agents and we really sometimes have to push people past their comfort zone and show them what they like, they just didn’t know that they like.
I did a bungee jump in New Zealand even though I’m afraid of heights – it’s good to step outside your comfort zone.
We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.
As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you’re in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you’re in your zone.
It’s true that love stories are my comfort zone, and the result that ‘Premam’ got has only boosted my confidence in trying films of this genre.
The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
There are times where you’re in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there’s sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.
Watching monster movies as a kid, liking monsters, building monster models. TV shows like ‘The Munsters,’ ‘Addams Family’ and ‘Twilight Zone.’ It intrigued me. The music came from that.
I’ve been so in the zone, you don’t know where you are or where you’re at.
Whether it’s in America, Quebec, or France, if I can tell a story that takes me out of my comfort zone, then I’m surfing.
I can play in any position in the attacking zone, but I don’t like to stick to the wing, for instance. I need to have freedom to move throughout the attacking and creative zone.
What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don’t want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.
I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so.
It has started becoming a deal that wherever I go, people just want to see me dance. I try and keep it for the end zone, but sometimes you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.
So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
Every day, it’s a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I’ve never felt like I’ve had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ ‘Chums Annual.’ At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.
On ‘Chopped,’ the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.
Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we’re training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.
For me, that’s the difference in good hitters and bad hitters. If you can stay in the zone and make them throw you pitches, you’ll be able to drive the ball a little bit better.
Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.
The way to connect to people is to relate to who they are and do something that stretches you outside of your comfort zone.
At this point, I’m just grinding through it, trying to establish strikes in the zone with my pitches, using some information the opposition gives me, and kind of moving forward in that regard.
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.
The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone – which I don’t understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
I’m lucky my parents are incredibly supportive and generous people who have put so much faith in me as I jump into this crazy business. It really is so far outside their comfort zone in terms of what a profession can be.
I think it’s important that the English culture changes a little bit and we do start to go abroad and step out of our comfort zone.
The more pressure you can put on me and get me out of my comfort zone, the better I shine.
What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again.
The euro zone was driven by the neoliberal view that markets are always efficient. That in itself is political. There was no pressing economic need that the euro was required to solve, but leaders believed that it would foster growth.
I like stepping out of my comfort zone.
I’m so happy that I ventured out beyond the Royal Ballet – which is my home, and I love it – but I would never have pushed myself outside of my comfort zone.
