Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

I've already done things I never believed I would. Even stepping out of Northampton and being in London - London always seemed like the big city I might go to for Carnival, go for a party and a chill and then head home.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

I love challenging myself, doing different things and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before. That's what I love about acting, and that's what I love about film.

I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it.

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

I learn by going where I have to go.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.

I personally think that you have to get lost to find something really worthwhile, at least sometimes.

It's good to experience different things.

A few people weren't sure when I first told them about Dortmund, but I felt this was the best journey for me. Just try it, you know? I like trying new things, so it didn't really faze me.

I knew it was right to make time for myself to have adventures and fulfil dreams.

Alabama will always be home and have a special place in my heart, but I want my life to be more than just living there. I want to see more of the world and, through that, find out more about myself.

I'm always looking for challenges.