Doug Liman Quotes

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

Keep at it, always be thinking about it, always be developing, always try to grow and learn more - and never stay in one place.

Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.

I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

I have a massive fear of going stale and falling into a comfort zone.

If you don't get adventurous, you stay in the same spot; you don't really grow.

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.

I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.