I have worked in 60 countries, covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spent much of 2014 living inside West Africa’s Ebola zone, a place gripped by fear and death.
Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.
I enjoy making people laugh. If I can put a smile on someone’s face if I do a dance in the end zone, why not?
In both the U.S. and Europe, the budget and balance sheet numbers do not work. When ‘off-balance sheet’ promises are taken into account, the U.S. and most countries of the Euro zone are insolvent.
Well, the fact that the news industry doesn’t have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don’t know how to get there.
I’ve always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.
What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.
It’s hard ‘coz you have got different time zones; you can’t sleep and y’know, it’s boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y’know, onstage it’s all better.
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It’s the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That’s why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
Every opponent is different. Some guys are going to be in pick-and-roll a little bit higher, and then you have opportunities to drive for layups. Some guys are going to zone deeper and then the mid-range shot is open.
My life isn’t always at risk, even if I’m in a war zone. A lot of these places have areas of calm, so covering war doesn’t necessarily mean being shot at all the time.
The San Fernando Valley has plenty of manufacturing zones, especially in the 29th Congressional District.
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
After the success of ‘Rumours,’ we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.
Directing pushes me out of my comfort zone, and I feel like a student again.
When you’re writing, you’re in a totally different zone… I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.
When you’re little, you’re open to things. It’s not like you get into this rehearsed zone when you’re a child. At first you play different sides of yourself. And I think it will be really exciting one day to have a character to go into that’s not anything like me whatsoever.
When it’s a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.
I didn’t really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.
It’s when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It’s always beyond what you’ve ever done.
I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice… and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.
Whether it’s third down, man vs. man or red zone, a lot of the game comes down to one-on-one matchups.
Human divisions would be child’s play for any reasonably competent alien overlord to exploit – check the masterful ‘Twilight Zone’ episode ‘The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street’ for an example of how that might play out.
In 1999, NATO did impose a no-fly zone in Kosovo without seeking a U.N. resolution to carry out air strikes on Serbian forces.
If you don’t like a film or do a film out of obligation in a comfortable zone, it would be very painful, but when you do something with passion, interest, and belief in it, it excites you.
I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing.
I think the biggest advice that I could give people is to actually try and live beyond your dreams by pushing yourself, challenging yourself to do things a little bit outside of your comfort zone.
Even when I haven’t played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It’s like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live.
I wake up naturally and begrudgingly around 6:10 A.M. That’s wired in so deeply that I wake up at that time no matter where I am, in any time zone. I wish I could sleep later.
Aang hits the Avatar-state and he has this unlimited power. He enters into a flow state, you know, he’s in the zone. That’s how it feels for me sometimes when I’m fighting.
I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
It’s definitely good to play out of my comfort zone, especially in the Sydney Premier League which is one of the toughest leagues in the world.
I didn’t think I would be prime minister, because I didn’t consider it. But that’s the power of saying yes, because there will be a moment when someone asks you to do something beyond your comfort zone. I am not unique.
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that’s meaningful and important to people, but that’s not my area of coverage.
It’s a very strange silence that I’m living in right now. It’s a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don’t live in on this earth.
Since childhood, I’ve never been a morning person. I need something exciting, out of my comfort zone, to get out of bed.
If it’s an outside zone play, you have the green light to cut-block.
Mumbai is on a seismically sensitive zone; it is also dangerously exposed to the sea.
I believe in a zone of privacy.
For ‘Manikarnika’, I’ve learnt horse riding and sword fighting, so I have gone out of my comfort zone.
We’ve been doing a 40-year end zone celebration of the victories won by our parents and grandparents. We haven’t shepherded our history. We haven’t taught it so others can learn from it and implement the lessons.
I think once you’re in the friend zone, I’m not sure how you get out. Well, actually, I do know how you get out. You act like the friend back. That’s how you get out.
Every year, we ask our donors to dig deeper. And every year, they gladly, generously comply. It is now up to us to find ways and means to forestall the day when they cannot – or will not. Or the consequences for people in war zones could be disastrous.
I was so happy in my comfort zone which was dancing. But after a point, you feel the need to grow, otherwise everything becomes boring. Naturally, the next step for me was acting.
Machine Zone is redefining the face of social mobile MMO games.
I think to do anything out of one’s comfort zone, there has to be some aspect of it that feels inspiring and challenging in a positive way.
I basically follow a modified Zone Diet. I have my food prepared weekly and eat 6 times a day.
You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn’t belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don’t think it’s fair.
There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.
When I get bored, I’ll zone out, and I’ll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.
I watched ‘Fame,’ and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.
People are happiest when they’re the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.
I am absolutely terrified to move… I truly, truly believe that success lies outside of your comfort zone, and my house has been the greatest comfort zone for me.
The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
It wasn’t easy to leave my comfort zone and chase my dreams. However, it is important to believe in yourself.
Conventional wisdom tells us we’ll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
I think being fashion forward is stepping out of your comfort zone with just even a single piece – an accessory, footwear, a dress – something that shows your style but is just a bit outside of your comfort zone.
