Lupe Fiasco Quotes

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

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

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.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

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.

Just try new things. Don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.

You have to try things in life.

The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

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

Sometimes it takes courage and experience to allow yourself to actually go into being someone that you're not, and it's the most liberating thing to let go. I do think that's why I love acting - it's being someone that you're not. And sometimes you're really scared of it, and then once you let yourself go there, it's the best thing ever.

One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.