Jacques Derrida Quotes

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.

In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.

You don't know what you can do until you try.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

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.

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

Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

You have to take risks.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

I've learned to never rule anything in or out.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

If you're too much in control, you feel too secure in your shoes, and where's the emotion to keep going in life? To keep that spark going, you have to feel like an outsider.

Without risk you can't experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.

Life is an affirmation, not a defamation. Life means living. Life means taking that one tiny or giant leap beyond what you know you can do, or simply beyond what you know. It is in these moments that we live.