Jonathan Nolan Quotes

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

I enjoy traveling, teaching and fighting. It's in my blood.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

If you play dead often enough, you've got a great will to live.

I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

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

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.

At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Trust what you see and go play.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you WILL get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.