Bruce Wilkinson Quotes

If we decline to become set in our ways, that's good. But it doesn't always feel good. It can be very challenging.

Change doesn't come from staying in your safe space.

I think change is always scary but also always good.

I like feeling out of my depth.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

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.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

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.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling.

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.

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

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

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

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

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.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

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.

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.