Anita Dobson Quotes

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

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

I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don't want to ever be comfortable.

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

You have to challenge yourself and things happen from there.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

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.

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

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

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.