We’ve collected the best Comfort Zone Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Aishwarya R. Dhanush, Abhishek Banerjee, Zawe Ashton, Kian Lawley, Karen Salmansohn. Use them as an inspiration.
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‘Vai Raja Vai’ is a racy, out-and-out commercial entertainer. I had to step out of my comfort zone to make it.
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I think whenever you transform from normal light-hearted characters, to characters which might be out of your comfort zone or less relatable, that is double the work and commitment required to understand the society that character comes from.
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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.
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When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
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I have grown up on literature and mythological stories. They have fascinated me since childhood, and I believe every character that I portray on screen is an extension of my personality to some degree. That is why whatever role I play seems in my comfort zone.
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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.
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I went from playing to like ten people in a pub to playing thousands of people and being in this music industry, you really have to get out of your comfort zone fast.
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I like stepping out of my comfort zone.
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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It’s just a continuous process, trying to work through it, trying find that comfort zone and go from there. That’s kind of where I’m at. I feel pretty good about where I’m at.
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We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
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I didn’t really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.
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Dancing has always been my comfort zone.
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After ‘Spring Awakening,’ I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow.
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For cool things to happen, you have to get out of your comfort zone.
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Unless a role pushes me out of my comfort zone, I don’t feel interested at all.
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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.
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Love is all about understanding each other. There are thousands of perfect men out there but I might find my comfort zone in a pretty average guy. That’s love for me.
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What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I’m continuing to do. You want to push boundaries, to not always be in your comfort zone. If you don’t, you get stale. So you have to find areas of growth.
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When I decided to become an actor, I realised that every role that we play on screen requires a different kind of prep. I learnt wrestling for ‘Dangal,’ went through an emotional grind for ‘Photograph‘ and stepped out of my comfort zone and shed too many inhibitions for ‘Pataakha.’
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I never imagined I’d be a presenter on television, but I’m happy to put myself out of my comfort zone.
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There are a lot of forms of exercise where you have to leave yourself out of the room while you force yourself to do this thing. With Pilates, I get to bring my true self. I cry, I laugh. I get to go, ‘Where is my body today? What do I need today? How can I take care of myself and push myself past my comfort zone?’
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One thing I found very interesting about comedians around the world was their knowledge of stuff outside of their own culture and comfort zone. That’s not very common in the States. We produce our own soft power, which is pop culture, but we rarely try to absorb and learn information from other cultures and countries.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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To the degree we’re not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
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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.
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That’s what I love – to be pushed out of my comfort zone.
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I like to put people into situations that are out of their comfort zone and see what happens.
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When I was young, living in Belgium, my parents spoke Portuguese, we have the Brazilian passion at home, I played with PSV in Holland, you experience all these different cultures and you get used to living with that. I think it has made me a better player and a better person to get out of my comfort zone.
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I love when I am outside my comfort zone.
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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.
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I think it’s important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
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I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I’ve done now.
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‘The Daily Show‘ forced me out of my comfort zone.
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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.
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I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone.
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I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.
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You need to live a little bit outside your comfort zone because you can be even more than you dream of.
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I love going out of my comfort zone – I live to go out of my comfort zone.
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Antonio Conte helps you to grow because you can never get too comfortable or find a comfort zone.
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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.
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Acknowledging the unproductive thoughts and ineffective behavior that you’ve tried to ignore can be uncomfortable. But, stepping out of your comfort zone and choosing to proactively address bad habits will skyrocket your ability to create long-lasting change.
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For me, any time I’m on the football field, that’s my comfort zone.
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New York was very frightening and very overwhelming, and I didn’t really know anybody. My sister had some friends there, and I stayed with them, then I moved in with a friend of a friend. I was very outside my comfort zone. Then again, I was pretty uncomfortable in general – but I knew it was where I was supposed to be.
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I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.
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‘Bigg Boss‘ is one reality show which is a completely different format and pulls you out of your comfort zone.
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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.
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I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
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It wasn’t easy to leave my comfort zone and chase my dreams. However, it is important to believe in yourself.
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Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
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I’m looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that’s out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you’re uncomfortable doing something; then it’s going to be interesting when they film it.
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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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.
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It’s always good to go outside of your comfort zone.
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In Scotland you can enter a comfort zone. I felt I had already developed a reputation there and felt it was important to prove I can play elsewhere.
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I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.
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I am always looking for projects that make me step out of my comfort zone and do something different.
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It is really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone.
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I’m never going to be in a comfort zone. I always want to be a better player, person. I want to help my team get the goals that we are aiming for.
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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.
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As an actor I want to explore myself and really want to break the stereotype. I want to go beyond my comfort zone.
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If you want to make more money, you’ll have to do things differently. You will have to do things you never even thought of doing in the past. You will have to do things out of your comfort zone.
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Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.
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Step outside your comfort zone because that’s the only way you’re going to grow.
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I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it’s because you’re comfortable doing that, but when you’re an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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My comfort zone and where I feel most natural is being a heel.
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It’s easy to talk a good game in an echo chamber, it’s easy to witness to people who think exactly the same way you do, but to test your convictions by going outside your comfort zone is where the ideological battle needs to go.
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In every novel, I write about something – a place, an experience, an emotion – with which I’m intimately familiar, but it’s also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I’ll suffocate.
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Sometimes it’s important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.
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I’m not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it’s in my comfort zone.
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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.
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You have to learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable. You have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and push your limits.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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In Italy, you’re in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It’s not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.
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NYU was my comfort zone.
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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.
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Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also seem to refresh a series. Anyone who writes a series lives in fear of it becoming stale, so you do whatever you can to keep it fresh – although it does feel a bit nerve-racking to write outside of your comfort zone.
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Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth‘s temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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We want to take ourselves out of our comfort zones; when you’re in your comfort zone for so long, you only play to a certain level.
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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.
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As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
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It’s important to build trust if you’re trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.
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I feel, in my live shows, I can be as dynamic as I want. It’s my comfort zone. When I get in the studio, it’s more of a solitary experience, which can be good creatively.
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People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
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If I don’t get out of my comfort zone, I will never change and never improve.
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When I was young, living in Belgium, my parents spoke Portuguese, we have the Brazilian passion at home, I played with PSV in Holland, you experience all these different cultures and you get used to living with that. I think it has made me a better player and a better person to get out of my comfort zone.
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When you’re constantly stuck in your comfort zone, it means you’re not growing.
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I personally feel that whenever I have stepped out of my comfort zone, I have only grown in life.
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My top tip for looking your best is to dress for yourself, not for anyone else. Even working with a stylist, I wouldn’t wear anything she told me to wear unless I was comfortable with it myself. That said, it’s good to push yourself out of your style comfort zone every so often to make sure you try new things.
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That’s when things get exciting – when you’re outside the comfort zone, trying different things.
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Sometimes you need to come out of your comfort zone a little bit.
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My comfort zone is in a kitchen.
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I did a bungee jump in New Zealand even though I’m afraid of heights – it’s good to step outside your comfort zone.
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My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I’ve pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.
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When you are pushed out of your comfort zone, that’s when you realise you may have to learn a little bit more.
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When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there’s nothing more satisfying.
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I’m from the ‘less is more‘ school. I had to be in the ‘more is more’ zone with ‘Dallas Buyers Club‘, so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.
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I think sometimes we put blinders on and define our personas very narrowly and are afraid to step outside the comfort zone – something I’ve never been afraid to do.
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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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.
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You have to keep challenging yourself. I’ve always tried to do that, and I’m not saying I’ve always been successful. Maybe I’ve rewritten the same song; it’s inevitable, but I’ve always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can’t stick in your little comfort zone.
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A lot of the issues today may not affect us personally, but we can’t stay in our comfort zone when it comes to protecting our brothers and sisters. We have to get out there and use our voices for them as well.
