Simon Helberg Quotes

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

To achieve you most be prepared to try; and be prepared to fail if you try.

Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.

Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.

Don't be afraid to look silly. You are only holding yourself back if you are afraid of looking silly or failing.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

I realized I deserve to be happy and have all the things I want in life. It might be scary and outside the norm of what everybody else does, but I need to just go for it.

The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.

Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.