Quotes About Discovery

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

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 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 am always looking for projects that make me step out of my comfort zone and do something different.

The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

I like to put people into situations that are out of their comfort zone and see what happens.

I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

I want to have tried at least once and got out of my comfort zone in Mumbai. I know that Hindi serials are waiting for me there.

It's always best to challenge yourself and go to a place out of your comfort zone.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

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.

For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.

When I was little, my parents took me to the San Diego Zoo. I was about 5 years old, and I got a tour of the zoo that hardly anybody else has ever had.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Much that I sought, I could not find; much that I found, I could not bind; much that I bound, I could not free; much that I freed, returned to me.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.