Denis Waitley Quotes

The child in me wanted to try out new things and do something different.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

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.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

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.

Don't be afraid to try something new.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.

See things not as they are but as they might be.