Lauren Bowles Quotes

I'd love to do anything that is outside of my comfort zone, that I've never done before. Whenever I think about something that I want to take on, I like it if it makes me a bit nervous, or makes me feel like I don't know exactly that I can pull it off.

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

I like feeling out of my depth.

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

In 2012, I promised myself I'd do something each month I'd never done before. So I skydived. I did trapeze lessons. I rode a motorcycle... All stuff that I'd never done.

The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. Thats the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.

The single best way to develop leaders . . . is to take people out of their safe environment and away from the people they know, and throw them into a new arena they know little about. Way over their head, preferably. In fact, the more demanding their challenges, the more pressure and risk they face, the more likely a dynamic leader will emerge.

I feel like in order to challenge yourself you have to get out of and do things that feel wrong at first and find new things. It's important to look for those things.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

I always like being able to do something I haven't done before.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

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

If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

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

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet.

One thing that I'm continually reminded of is just to always find something that will challenge you in a new way, a very new way, and that's not the easiest of roads, but it's the most exciting.