Jennifer Armintrout Quotes

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

YouTube is so quick and so instant, and you make a video, and you can upload it the same day, whereas with a book, you have to go through a lot of time and a lot of people and a lot of processes. So it was weird to sit down and work with other people on projects, because I'm so independent with YouTube.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.

I don't like change that much.

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

When you're constantly stuck in your comfort zone, it means you're not growing.

People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.

I love to continue to evolve as a player, and sometimes the only places you can do that is when you're uncomfortable, and sometimes when you're at home for too long, it's not that.

I think people don't really like change.

If you want to make more money, you'll have to do things differently. You will have to do things you never even thought of doing in the past. You will have to do things out of your comfort zone.

. . . escape is easier than change.

If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.