Prithviraj Sukumaran Quotes

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

Established is a dangerous word for me. It could imply a modicum of complacency.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

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

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

It's only when you push at the edges that you excel.

I see some people stay in one place because it's convenient or it's comfortable. But they're missing out on their passion.

If you sit there and have that mentality of 'triple down on what you're good at,' you're never going to grow. You're always going to stay the same.

We don't have to test our boundaries anymore. We definitely know what they are.

Once you have the money, fame, success or power, it's so easy to maintain that, because all you have to do is play it safe.

We tend to default to complacency. Stick to the easy option. We all do it. We've tried to create a business model and society around us that is as easy and boxed as possible. We love creating boundaries and borders.

If you're all confidence, you never evolve or take risks. You're just stagnating in your artistry, whatever you're doing.

One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

One of the big problems entrepreneurs run into is they get too comfortable.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. You want to push boundaries, to not always be in your comfort zone. If you don't, you get stale. So you have to find areas of growth.