Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

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

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

Without fear you can't explore or push yourself beyond what you've done.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

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 think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

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

I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.

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

I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.

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

I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

I'm definitely an actor first, but it's fun to kind of, you know, push your boundaries and see if you can do things that have scared you a little bit your whole life.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

I like being thrown out of my comfort zone.

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.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

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 feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'