Quotes About Self-discovery

Zimbabwe was still a relatively young country when I was living there and its post-apartheid society was only newly formed. Being a mixed-race child in that environment means that you have to think about crafting your own identity and you question why you belong in that world.

You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.

What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob.

Try new things, step out of your comfort zone, take risks, do things in ways you've never done them before, ask for help, surround yourself with self-actualized people, become obsessed with the fact that you have one go-round on this planet as the you that is you, and realize how precious and important it is not to squander that.

The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable, you see what you're made of and who you are.

Sometimes it's important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

I didn't like the person I was growing up to become. I needed to find myself and my identity. And for me, getting out of my comfort zone, getting away from the people I grew up with, and finding adventure, that was my odyssey, and it was the best decision I ever made.

No one goes on a direct path, even though it sometimes feels like your peers might be racing ahead. Everyone's trying to figure it out. But if you just put yourself out there, step out of your comfort zone, establish yourself in terms of skills, mentorship, but leave space for your passions, then you're going to turn out pretty well.

There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's just not like that. I'm on a journey of self-discovery and trying to avoid total existential crisis. That's the kind of operating zone that I'm approaching this business from.

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

For anyone, taking yourself out of your natural environment and comfort zone is such a great way to reflect where you've come from and where you are going.

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

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.

I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.

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.

I want somebody else to say, 'Man, that 'Back 2 Life' album got me through. There were songs that really empowered me to get out of my safe zone or to leave that abusive relationship or made me feel confident.'

It wasn't until a few years ago, when I was going through old Facebook pictures with a friend, and happened upon a photo of a monkey at a zoo that had been tagged as me by an old housemate, that I realized I'd normalized so much racism.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

'Be yourself!' is about the worst advice you can give to some people.