Merrill Markoe Quotes

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

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.

The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.

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

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

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Why go through life if you're not going to challenge yourself?

If it scares me, it means I'm supposed to do it.

I'm always nudging myself into discomfort zones as much as I can.

Some are happy with where their comfort zone is, but I like to be constantly tested, and I think it's good.

Any time I push through a fear, I'm proud of that.

It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

I like feeling out of my depth.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.